Women Encounter Technology

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Women Encounter Technology

Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World

Regional / International studies Gender studies, gender groups Economics

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Collection: UNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 2nd September 2003

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 747 Kb

ISBN: 9781134799503


Overview

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.

Themes

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.

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