ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|23 pages
Conflicting demands of new technology and household work
Women’s work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles
chapter 6|16 pages
Information technology and women’s employment in manufacturing in eastern Europe
The case of Slovenia
chapter 9|28 pages
Information technology, gender and employment
A case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia
chapter 13|25 pages
Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing
Learning from international experience
chapter 14|11 pages
Using information technology as a mobilizing force
The case of the Tanzania Media Women’s Association (TAMWA)
chapter 15|27 pages
The fading of the collective dream?
Reflections on twenty years’ research on information technology and women’s employment
