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Gender and the digital economy : perspectives from the developing world / editors, Cecilia Ng Choon Sim, Swasti Mitter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2005Description: 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761934103
  • 9780761934103
  • 8178295733
  • 9788178295732
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42091724 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1240.5.D44 G463 2005
Contents:
1. Gender and empowerment in the information economy : an introduction / Swasti Mitter and Cecilia Ng -- 2. Globalization, ICTs, and economic empowerment : a feminist critique / Swasti Mitter -- 3. From 'information' to 'knowledge' societies? Argentina in the context of engendered regional globalization / Martha Roldan -- 4. Female spaces in the Philippines' ICT industry / Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu -- 5. Women's agency and the IT industry in India / Govind Kelkar, Girija Shrestha and Veena N. -- 6. Valuing women's voices : call center workers in Malaysia and India / Cecilia Ng and Swasti Mitter -- 7. Women weavers OnLine : rural Moroccan women on the Internet / Susan Schaefer Davis -- 8. Virtual community building for networking among women / Isabel Zorn -- 9. Gender-net : a political goal of communication technologies / Dora Ines Munevar M. and Juan Aburto Arrieta -- 10. Thinking BIG to accelerate gender equality and transformation in the ICT arena / Gillian M. Marcelle.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Gender and empowerment in the information economy : an introduction / Swasti Mitter and Cecilia Ng -- 2. Globalization, ICTs, and economic empowerment : a feminist critique / Swasti Mitter -- 3. From 'information' to 'knowledge' societies? Argentina in the context of engendered regional globalization / Martha Roldan -- 4. Female spaces in the Philippines' ICT industry / Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu -- 5. Women's agency and the IT industry in India / Govind Kelkar, Girija Shrestha and Veena N. -- 6. Valuing women's voices : call center workers in Malaysia and India / Cecilia Ng and Swasti Mitter -- 7. Women weavers OnLine : rural Moroccan women on the Internet / Susan Schaefer Davis -- 8. Virtual community building for networking among women / Isabel Zorn -- 9. Gender-net : a political goal of communication technologies / Dora Ines Munevar M. and Juan Aburto Arrieta -- 10. Thinking BIG to accelerate gender equality and transformation in the ICT arena / Gillian M. Marcelle.

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