Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (UNU, 1995, 356 pages): 4. Conflicting demands of new technology and household work: (introductory text...)

Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (UNU, 1995, 356 pages)

4. Conflicting demands of new technology and household work

		*(introductory text...)*
		The context
		The restructuring of the textiles industry: Technology and new organizational models
		Technology-induced job losses
		Technical change and labour use
		Vocational training and retraining patterns for textiles: Implications for women
		The work environment in textiles
		Textile workers' households3
		Women workers' perceptions and voices
		Notes
		References

(introductory text...)

Women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles

Liliana Acero

It is not enough to rely on the development process itself to diminish male bias. The development process acts in multifarious ways on male bias: reinforcing some forms of the subordination of women, decomposing other forms and recomposing yet new forms.

Diane Elson (1991, p. 25)