Gender and the digital economy
Subtitle: perspectives from the developing world
By: editors, Cecilia Ng Choon Sim, Swasti Mitter.
Contributors: Ng, Cecilia, 1950-; Mitter, Swasti, 1939-
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Women in economic development -- Developing countries.; Information society -- Developing countries.; Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.; Women -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Developing countries.; Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and empowerment in the information economy : an introduction / Swasti Mitter and Cecilia Ng Choon Sim; title: Globalization, ICTs, and economic empowerment : a feminist critique / Swasti Mitter; title: From 'information' to 'knowledge' societies? : Argentina in the context of engendered regional globalization / Martha Roldán; title: Female spaces in the Philippines' ICT industry / Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu; title: Women's agency and the IT industry in India / Govind Kelkar, Girija Shrestha, and Veena N; title: Valuing women's voices : call center workers in Malaysia and India / Cecilia Ng Choon Sim and Swasti Mitter; title: Women weavers online : rural Moroccan women on the Internet / Susan Schaefer Davis; title: Virtual community building for networking among women / Isabel Zorn; title: Gender-net : a political goal of communication technologies / Dora Inés Munévar M. and Juan Aburto Arrieta; title: Thinking big to accelerate gender equality and transformation in the ICT arena / Gillian M. Marcelle.