Mugisha, Johnny Sebatta, Christopher Mausch, Kai Ahikiriza, Elizabeth Kalule Okello, David Njuguna, Esther M
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Gender, technology and development
Female plot managers in Sub-Saharan Africa often realize significantly lower crop yields than their male counterparts. Even for legumes, which are often referred to as 'women's crops', yields are significantly lower. This study investigated the underlying causes of this gender yield gap in groundnut production. The analysis is based on survey data ...
Nanda, M
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Gender, technology and development
Literate but unskilled--and largely female--labor has thus far fueled the tremendous increase in manufactured exports of garments and microelectronic products from the Third World to the industrially advanced economies of the North. The future growth of these sectors, however, may require literate and skilled workers--a category in which women are ...
Wongthawatchai, N
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Gender, technology and development
This paper reviews two books that explore the emerging properties of the Internet and their possible consequences for social structure and human interaction. Discussing the separate summaries of the books, two contradictory perceptions of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are presented: 1) the Internet is creating a new women's com...
Joshi, S
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Gender, technology and development
Like many national statistical surveys, the Agricultural Census of Nepal does not reflect the actual contribution of women's work in agriculture. Inadequacies in conceptualization, definition of terms and data gathering methods result in undervaluation and underrepresentation of women's work. This study of 124 Newar households in the Lubhu Village ...
Kakad, K
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Gender, technology and development
Spatial and social processes are inextricably linked. Hence gender relations as an inherent part of social relations get built into the spatial forms of any society. Spatial segregation by sex was a mark of traditional societies. This has diminished somewhat in contemporary societies due to various factors, perhaps the most important being the entr...
Gonzalez Manchon, B
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Gender, technology and development
After the departure of the British, India was divided into a non-Muslim-majority state (India) and a new Muslim-majority entity (Pakistan). This territorial separation of religious communities emerged as the political solution to communal tensions and Muslim claims for a separate state. In this paper, the books ¿Borders and Boundaries: Women in Ind...
Krishnaraj, M
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Gender, technology and development
52 years is not a small period for initiating progress. The promises enshrined in the Indian Constitution and the vision of women's full emancipation advanced during the nationalist struggle have alas not merely receded, but there is every danger that the lost momentum may not be made up unless once again the authors gear ourselves to intervene mor...
Shrestha, G
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Gender, technology and development
Housing is not only a technological product, it is also a product of culture and gender relations. Gender differentiation in the means adopted to meet basic needs, access to religious spaces, social interaction, ownership and inheritance systems is reflected in built technology, affecting housing elements like the quality and size of space. And jus...
Pande, R
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Gender, technology and development
In Andhra Pradesh, India, an anti-arrack movement was created which grew out of the awareness brought about by the mass-literacy campaigns of the National Literacy Mission (NLC). It began as a spontaneous movement against alcoholism in a remote village in Dubaganta, supported by the NLC in Nellore and adopted by the other districts of Andhra Prades...
Hermawati, W Luhulima, A S
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Gender, technology and development
This paper presents the preliminary results of a study by the Gender Working Group, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, on women's contribution to, and benefits to women from, science, engineering and technology (SET), specifically the benefits accruing to disadvantaged women in urban and rural areas in Indonesia. Previous studies on the participatio...
