Women Encounter Technology
İÇİNDEKİLERContentsList of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements 1 Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction Swasti Mitter 2 Information technology and working women's demands Swasti Mitter 3 Feminist approaches to technology: women's values or a gender lens? Sheila Rowbotham 4 Conflicting demands of new technology and household work: women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles Liliana Acero 5 Changes in textiles: implications for Asian women Pavla Jezkova 6 Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenia Maja Butar 7 Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in transition Charlene Gannage 8 Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector Sujata Gothoskar 9 Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia Cecilia Ng Choon Sim and Carol Yong 10 Women in software programming: the experience of Brazil Fatima Janine Gaio 11 Something old, something new, something borrowed The electronics industry in Calcutta Nirmala Banerjee 12 Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion? Mayuri Odedra-Straub 13 Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing: learning from international experience Ruth Pearson 14 Using information technology as a mobilizing force: the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) Fatma Alloo 15 The fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on information technology and women's employment Ursula Huws Afterword Sheila Bowbotham Index NOTLARChanging Patterns of Employment in the Third World |
