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Scientific-technological Change And The Role Of Women In Development

Author : Pamela D'onofrio-flores

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 19,62 MB

Release : 2019-07-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1000310949

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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.



Scientific-technological Change and the Role of Women In Development

Author : Pamela M. D'Onofrio-Flores

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 19,58 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.







Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge

Author : Micaela di Leonardo

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 435 pages

File Size : 25,74 MB

Release : 2023-09-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0520910354

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Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge brings feminist anthropology up to date, highlighting the theoretical sophistication that characterizes recent research. Twelve essays by outstanding scholars, written with the volume's concerns specifically in mind, range across the broadest anthropological terrain, assessing and contributing to feminist work on biological anthropology, primate studies, global economy, new reproductive technologies, ethno-linguistics, race and gender, and more. The editor's introduction not only sets two decades of feminist anthropological work in the multiple contexts of changes in anthropological theory and practice, political and economic developments, and larger intellectual shifts, but also lays out the central insights feminist anthropology has to offer us in the postmodern era. The profound issues raised by the authors resonate with the basic interests of any discipline concerned with gender, that is, all of the social sciences and humanities.



Science And Technology In A Changing International Order

Author : Volker Rittberger

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 14,5 MB

Release : 2019-06-21

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1000310795

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As part of its contribution to the 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development IUNCSTD) the United Nations Institute for Training and Research jUNITAR) organized an informal research group to assess various aspects of applying science and technology to development through the United Nations system. This research group was constituted in early 1978 at the initiative of Dr. Robert S. Jordan, former Director of Research at UNITAR, and was headed by Professor Volker Rittberger, a UNITAR Special Fellow. One of the activities of this group has been the production of a series of working papers on science and technology. These papers seek to provide preliminary analyses rather than definitive conclusions. Their purpose is to facilitate the access of others to the ongoing work of the group and to stimulate critical comments and reactions leading to further improvement of this work.



Technology and Rural Women

Author : Iftikhar Ahmed

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 48,18 MB

Release : 2022-08-30

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1000648761

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First published in 1985, Technology and Rural Women synthesizes the fragmented empirical evidence and the wide range of theoretical approaches on the effects of modernisation on women in the developing world. Using a multi-disciplinary methodology, empirical and sectoral overviews, and country case studies, it draws together the literature to clarify the issues and the policies. The book begins with a conceptual overview and analyses the applicability of traditional theories of technological change and impact on gender based distributional questions. It proceeds to compare the African and Asian experience, examines the African situation regionally, and then as a set of four country case studies. The authors find that the imperfections of rural factor markets have contributed to women’s concentration in labour intensive sectors, marked by low productivity and low returns. Biases in the agrarian structure and the extension services are largely responsible for the Institutionalisation of discrimination against women. Finally, the volume identifies the social, economic, and technical constraints to the diffusion of technologies relevant to rural women’s tasks. In the final chapter the book’s analysis is further refined and extended, so that its conclusions to both theory and policy making are clearly brought out, and areas of future research identified. This book is an essential read for students and scholars of labour economics, women’s studies and economics in general.



Women's Education in the Third World

Author : David H. Kelly

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 652 pages

File Size : 46,34 MB

Release : 2017-05-18

Category : Education

ISBN : 1351704648

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Originally published in 1989. This detailed bibliography focuses on women’s education in the developing nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East. It contains annotations for about 1200 published works in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. The entries include extensive research journal, monograph and book literature items, including chapters hidden in books that don’t have women or education as their main theme. The citations are organised thematically but with geographic divisions within each of the 15 sections and each entry has a decently detailed summary. It is prefaced by a useful article written by Gail Kelly on the directions in research at the time and the development of women-centric approaches.





Professional Development Leadership and the Diverse Learner

Author : Jack Rhoton

Publisher : NSTA Press

Page : 177 pages

File Size : 22,16 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Education

ISBN : 0873551869

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This book focuses on the professional development of teachers and discusses issues related to science education reform. The content of the book is divided into two parts. Part 1, Professional Development: Implications for Science Leadership, chapters include: (1) "The Role of the Science Leader in Implementing Standards-Based Science Programs" (Harold Pratt); (2) "Moving Teachers from Mechanical to Mastery: The Next Level of Science Implementation" (JoAnne Vasquez and Michael B. Cowan); (3) "Learning and Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Information Age: A Challenge in Professional Development for Science Teachers" (J. Preston Prather and Maurice Houston Field); (4) "Bringing about School Change: Professional Development for Teacher Leaders" (Josephine D. Wallace, Catherine R. Nesbit, and Carol R. Newman); (5) "Building Capacity for Systemic Reform in Mathematics and Science Education: A Focus on a Develop-the-Developer Model" (Karen J. Charles and Francena D. Cummings); and (6) "The Precollege Program: A Collaborative Model of Student Enrichment and Professional Development in Mathematics and Science" (Patricia S. Moyer and Eric D. Packenham). Part 2, Professional Development and the Diverse Learner, chapters include: (1) "LEARN North Carolina: A Teacher-Directed Model of Technology Integration" (David J. Walbert); (2) "Teaching Science to Diverse Learners: A Professional Development Perspective" (Paul Rowland, Donna Montgomery, Greg Prater, and Sam Minner); (3) "Leadership in a Multicultural World: Transforming Today's Science Classrooms" (Deborah J. Tippins and Sharon E. Nichols); (4) "Knowing Others and Other Ways of Knowing: Cultural Issues in the Teaching of Science" (M. Elaine Davis); (5) "Reform and Museums: Enhancing Science Education in Formal and Informal Settings" (Judith K. Sweeney and Susan E. Lynds); (6) "Access to Technology: The Equity Dilemma for Science Educators" (Rebecca P. Butler); and (7) "Principles and Practices in Multicultural Science Education: Implications for Professional Development" (Gerry M. Madrazo, Jr., and Jack Rhoton). (YDS)