Women Encounter Technology : changing patterns of employment in the Third World

Type

Book

Authors

Mitter ( Swasti Mitter )

Rowbotham ( Sheila )

ISBN 10

0415141184

ISBN 13

9780415141185

Tags

Labor & Industrial Relations, Engineering, Regional, Technology, Economics, Earth Sciences, Political Science

Description

This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world. - from Amazon

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