num_pages: 374
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.
language: English
title: Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
titlecomplete: Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (UNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development)
publisher: Routledge