Technological Change, Basic Needs and the Condition of Rural Women
Author : A.S. Bhalla
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Basic needs
ISBN : 9789221038788
Author : A.S. Bhalla
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Basic needs
ISBN : 9789221038788
Author : Yvette Stevens
Publisher :
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : International Labour Office
Publisher :
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Basic needs
ISBN : 9789221038719
Author : Iftikhar Ahmed
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Rural women
ISBN :
Working paper on the impact of technological change on rural women - constitutes part of a WEP research project on technology and employment. Bibliography pp. 25 to 28, references and statistical tables.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9789221064510
Entries in English and various other languages.
Author : Iftikhar Ahmed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000648761
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.
Author : Roslyn Dauber
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 1981-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Technology, generally considered a positive force that enhances both social and economic development, only benefits a whole population when it permits the productive use of all human resources, female as well as male. Nevertheless, women continue to be a neglected component in planning for technological development. This book considers developmental target areas -- health, food, housing and fertility -- that concern women as family members and as heads of households and assesses the specific needs of women both in adapting to technological change and as agents of that change.
Author : Pamela D'onofrio-flores
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000310949
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.
Author : Kartik Chandra Roy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Rural development is a subject that appears to be plagued by a central paradox: development is necessary to alleviate rural poverty, but while new technology has raised agricultural output, it has also increased the suffering of millions of poor landless families in many Third World countries. The rural poor, especially women, have been marginalized; urban migrants have become desperate unemployed squatters, not well-paid industrial workers; and environmental degradation has proved severe. The authors argue that many development programmes go awry because the authorities neglect essential development issues. Development must be defined in terms of the provision of basic human needs which include life expectancy, infant mortality, and literacy indicators which reflect the quality of life of the bulk of the population, not just a narrow elite. What they suggest is that the issues neglected by the conventional approach must be addressed if true development is to occur.
Author : Ingrid Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 1976
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ISBN :