[PDF] Women And Technological Change In Developing Countries eBook

Author : Roslyn Dauber
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 1981-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Technology, generally considered a positive force that enhances both social and economic development, only benefits a whole population when it permits the productive use of all human resources, female as well as male. Nevertheless, women continue to be a neglected component in planning for technological development. This book considers developmental target areas -- health, food, housing and fertility -- that concern women as family members and as heads of households and assesses the specific needs of women both in adapting to technological change and as agents of that change.

Author : Pamela M. D'Onofrio-Flores
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9780429305542

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This critique by women of male-generated and male-dominated technologies grows out of a consciousness of women as essential, yet unsalaried, participants in production processes. The authors document the ways in which women suffer from technological development in industrialized and developing countries and assess how technological developments perpetuate inequalities between nations, regions, classes, and sexes. They discuss the implementation of modern technology in agriculture and its effects on rural women, look at the position of women in the basic and applied sciences and in science policymaking, and analyze the place of women in selected technology-based industries.

Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Technological innovations
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"The purpose of this paper is to consider women with respect to technology in its wider sense, i.e. objects, techniques, skills and processes which facilitate human activity in terms of: first, reducing human energy expenditure, second, reducing labour time, third, improving spatial mobility and fourth, alleviating material uncertainty. Because women's relationship to technology is mediated by social constraints which are exerted primarily through the household, community, market and state, and four social institutions will be the categories through which women's relationship to technology will be discussed. Furthermore, women's relationship to technology will be considered with respect to technology adoption maintenance and control, and invention in the process of de-agrarianisation, industrialization and urbanization."--Introd.

Author : United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. Gender Working Group
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0889367655

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In this landmark book, the UN-commissioned Gender Working Group outlines its policy proposals for national science and technology programs. Its goal is to ensure that women and men have equal access to and benefit equally from science and technology. The proposals are supported by essays written by distinguished scholars and experts.

Author : Ilsa Schumacher
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Developing countries
ISBN :

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Research paper on obstacles to rural women's access to agricultural credit and technology in developing countries - covers constraints such as the dual economy, sexual division of labour, insufficient knowhow and ineffective demand by women, programme planning focus of governments, bilateral aid and international organizations, choice of technology not adapted to women's needs, their participation in credit systems, etc., and includes technology and credit policy recommendations. Bibliography pp. 60 to 65.

Author : Swasti Mitter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134799519

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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.