Women encounter technology
Subtitle: changing patterns of employment in the Third World
By: edited by Swasti Mitter and Sheila Rowbotham.
Contributors: Mitter, Swasti, 1939-; Rowbotham, Sheila.
Series: UNU/INTECH studies in new technology and development -- 1.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Developing countries; Information technology -- Developing countries
Other titles: Changing patterns of employment in the Third World.
Notes: "Published in association with the UNU Press."

Originally published as hbk.: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond the politics of difference : an introduction / Swasti Mitter; title: Information technology and working women's demands / Swasti Mitter; title: Feminist approaches to technology : women's values or a gender lens? / Sheila Rowbotham; title: Conflicting demands of new technology and household work : women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles / Liliana Acero; title: Changes in textiles : implications for Asian women / Pavla Jezkova; title: Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe : the case of Slovenia / Maja Bučar; title: Restructuring and retraining : the Canadian garment industry in transition / Charlene Gannagé; title: Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector / Sujata Gothoskar; title: Information technology, gender and employment : a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia / Cecilia Ng Choon Sim and Carol Yong; title: Women in software programming : the experience of Brazil / Fatima Janine Gaio; title: Something old, something new, something borrowed : the electronics industry in Calcutta / Nirmala Banerjee; title: Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa : a topic for discussion? / Mayuri Odedra-Straub; title: Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing : learning from international experience / Ruth Pearson; title: Using information technology as a mobilizing force : the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) / Fatma Alloo; title: The fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on information technology and women's employment / Ursula Huws.