A new book offering a broad overview of the debates about technologies and gender
relations at work in a range of occupational areas. Innovative in its approach it deals with …

The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to
ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European …

Investigating women and technology may seem like a paradox-as technology is a word with
masculine connotations. Feminists have made efforts to correct this image by revealing that …

This collection of essays explores the effects of information technology on women's
employment and the nature of women's work in the third world. Contributors discuss the …

This paper places observational studies of women's work in historical perspective. We
present some of the very early studies (carried out in the period from 1900 to 1930), as well …

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INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES Studies in Asian Topics 1. THE METHOD OF HOLDING THE …

Cecilia Ng documents the changing position of women in Malaysia. It is divided in three
sections, each of which correspond to a different theme. The first section focuses on the role …

The emergence in the late 1970s of information and communication technologies (ICTs)
prompted enormous interest in computer technolo-gies and their effects upon work. Many …

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and
conceptual changes across European towns and examines how gender was implicated and …

This article analyses the forecasts made at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the
1980s regarding male dominance in the field of electronic data processing (EDP), the …