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: 1995
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.
Description: This collection of essays explores the effects of information technology on women's employment and the nature of women's work in the third world. Contributors discuss the challenges faced by women, along with their responses and organizing strategies, as they adjust to new technologies in less affluent communities. Also outlined are the roles that family, ideology, state policies and trade union structures can play in distributing information technology-related employment among women and men.

Particular chapters highlight differences in the interests and needs of different groups of women, challenging the concept of a monolithic, specifically feminine vision of technology and science. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and suggests ways in which modern technologies could promote gender equality in the developing world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Published in association with the UNU Press."