New Age Technology and Women Identity
Contents: Preface. 1. Incorporating gender into information and communication technology. 2. Liberal feminism. 3. Women\'s work in a globalized economy. 4. Challenging gendered structure: feminizing unions. 5. The nature of technological change. 6. Gender and grassroots leadership. 7. An era of economic transformation. 8. The development narrative and globalisation. 9. Identity within: cultural relativism. Bibliography. Index.
Information Technology (IT) comprises a set of technologies that actively process information rather than merely storing or transmitting it. Computers, the key hardware, and non-material software systems form its essential core. Even in nations which are in economic terms relatively poor, IT substantially changes the traditional production process as well as the marketable goods and services produced.
It is precisely in the context of women\'s autonomy and choice in poorer countries and in less affluent communities that it is now pertinent to focus on the impact of information technology on employment opportunities. There are understandable misgivings, even among some concerned philosophers, about an emphasis on gender, as it distracts attention from other elements that determine vulnerability in the world of paid work. It is not just a question of women. It is a much larger issue of a new technological basis of economic and cultural exploitation which is urging for a new spirit of democratic resistance against what is undoubtedly a considerably changed model of capitalist growth and integration. (jacket)
Information Technology (IT) comprises a set of technologies that actively process information rather than merely storing or transmitting it. Computers, the key hardware, and non-material software systems form its essential core. Even in nations which are in economic terms relatively poor, IT substantially changes the traditional production process as well as the marketable goods and services produced.
It is precisely in the context of women\'s autonomy and choice in poorer countries and in less affluent communities that it is now pertinent to focus on the impact of information technology on employment opportunities. There are understandable misgivings, even among some concerned philosophers, about an emphasis on gender, as it distracts attention from other elements that determine vulnerability in the world of paid work. It is not just a question of women. It is a much larger issue of a new technological basis of economic and cultural exploitation which is urging for a new spirit of democratic resistance against what is undoubtedly a considerably changed model of capitalist growth and integration. (jacket)
