ABSTRACT
Ever since the Industrial Revolution there has been an ongoing debate over the impact of technology on employment. This debate continues today in what is widely recognized as the second industrial revolution-information technology. The objective of this chapter is to examine the impact of information technology on women’s employment in Malaysia. Malaysia is a useful country to look at, given the present acceleration towards rapid industrialization and the government’s intention to make information technology (IT) one of the key technologies in the nation’s bid to become a developed country by the year 2020. The chapter also aims to explore the importance of gender, in relation to other factors such as ethnicity, in the stratification of occupations and jobs under the impact of computerization.
