عنوان

Gender and the digital economy :

0761934103

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Gender and the digital economy :

[Book]

perspectives from the developing world /

editors, Cecilia Ng Choon Sim, Swasti Mitter.

Thousand Oaks, Calif. :

SAGE Publications,

2005.

1 online resource (262 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender and empowerment in the information economy : an introduction / Swasti Mitter and Cecilia Ng Choon Sim -- Globalization, ICTs, and economic empowerment : a feminist critique / Swasti Mitter -- From 'information' to 'knowledge' societies? : Argentina in the context of engendered regional globalization / Martha Roldán -- Female spaces in the Philippines' ICT industry / Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu -- Women's agency and the IT industry in India / Govind Kelkar, Girija Shrestha, and Veena N -- Valuing women's voices : call center workers in Malaysia and India / Cecilia Ng Choon Sim and Swasti Mitter -- Women weavers online : rural Moroccan women on the Internet / Susan Schaefer Davis -- Virtual community building for networking among women / Isabel Zorn -- Gender-net : a political goal of communication technologies / Dora Inés Munévar M. and Juan Aburto Arrieta -- Thinking big to accelerate gender equality and transformation in the ICT arena / Gillian M. Marcelle.

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In the global discourse on ICTs, the concern so far has primarily been outsourcing and the loss of service sector jobs from the developed world. This book focuses, instead, on the positive aspects of the digital economy as they relate to women in the developing world. It illustrates--with case studies from Argentina, Morocco, India, Malaysia and the Philippines--how economic empowerment through the medium of ICTs can change the position of women within their families and the workplace, even in the face of uneven development processes. This timely volume, which is rooted in primary and original r.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Gender and the digital economy.

9780761934103

Information society-- Developing countries.

Information technology-- Economic aspects-- Developing countries.

Women-- Developing countries-- Economic conditions-- 21st century.

Women-- Effect of technological innovations on-- Developing countries.

Women in economic development-- Developing countries.

Beschäftigung

Empowerment

Frau.

Information society.

Information technology-- Economic aspects.

Informationsgesellschaft

Informationstechnische Industrie

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Feminism & Feminist Theory.

Soziale Stellung

Women-- Economic conditions.

Women-- Effect of technological innovations on.

Women in economic development.

Developing countries.

Entwicklungsländer

7

7

SOC-- 010000

Mitter, Swasti,1939-2016.

Ng, Cecilia,1950-

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