Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (UNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development)

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.