Title Women encounter technology : changing patterns of employment in the Third World / edited by Swasti Mitter and Sheila Rowbotham

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 356 pages) : illustrations Series UNU/INTECH studies in new technology and development, 1359-7922 ; 1 UNU/INTECH studies in new technology and development ; 1. 1359-7922 Contents Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction / Swasti Mitter -- Information technology and working women's demands / Swasti Mitter -- Feminist approaches to technology: women's values or a gender lens? / Sheila Rowbotham -- Conflicting demands of new technology and household work: women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles / Liliana Acero -- Changes in textiles: implications for Asian women / Pavla Jezkova -- Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenia / Maja Bučar -- Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in transition / Charlene Gannagé -- Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector / Sujata Gothoskar -- Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia / Cecilia Ng Choon Sim and Carol Yong -- Women in software programming: the experience of Brazil / Fatima Janine Gaio -- Something old, something new, something borrowed: the electronics industry in Calcutta / Nirmala Banerjee -- Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion? / Mayuri Odedra-Straub -- Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing: learning from international experience / Ruth Pearson -- Using information technology as a mobilizing force: the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) / Fatma Alloo -- The fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on information technology and women's employment / Ursula Huws Analysis Developing countries Women Women Employment Notes Originally published 1995 by Routledge "Published in association with the UNU Press." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Women -- Employment -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Developing countries Information technology -- Developing countries BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. Information technology Women -- Employment -- Effect of technological innovations on Developing countries Form Electronic book Author Mitter, Swasti, 1939-2016 Rowbotham, Sheila ISBN 0203208617 9780203208618 9780415126878 0415126878

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