Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (Unu Intech Studies in New Technology & Development) By Swasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
1997 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0415141184 | PDF | 2 MB
1997 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0415141184 | PDF | 2 MB
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.