TY  - GEN
T1  - Gender and the digital economy : perspectives from the developing world
A2  - Ng, Cecilia, 1950-
A2  - Mitter, Swasti, 1939-2016
LA  - English
PP  - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE Publications
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn551205934
AB  - 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.
OP  - 262
CN  - HQ1240.5.D44 G463 2005eb
SN  - 9788132103622
SN  - 8132103629
SN  - 9780761934103
SN  - 0761934103
SN  - 9788178295732
SN  - 8178295733
SN  - 9788132112655
SN  - 8132112652
SN  - 1282425021
SN  - 9781282425026
SN  - 9786612425028
SN  - 6612425024
KW  - Women in economic development : Developing countries.
KW  - Information society : Developing countries.
KW  - Information technology : Economic aspects : Developing countries.
KW  - Women : Effect of technological innovations on : Developing countries.
KW  - Women : Developing countries : Economic conditions : 21st century.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Feminism & Feminist Theory.
KW  - Information society
KW  - Information technology : Economic aspects
KW  - Women : Economic conditions
KW  - Women : Effect of technological innovations on
KW  - Women in economic development
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Informationstechnische Industrie
KW  - Informationsgesellschaft
KW  - Beschäftigung
KW  - Empowerment
KW  - Soziale Stellung
KW  - Entwicklungsländer
KW  - Frau
KW  - 2000-2099
ER  -