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1 online resource (338 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Front cover; About the editors; More praise for Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The time and space we live in; Research for the purpose of social transformation; Gender and ICT4D research: conforming, reforming and transforming; Researching for or researching with?; This book; The chapters; Part one -- Agentic ICT use: the aspiration for emancipation versus the power of gender traditions; Part two -- Developing critical voice in and through safe ICT-created space. |
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Part three -- ICT-enhanced relating and becoming: personal and social transformationThe seeds of transformation in connection; Notes; References; ONE Agentic ICT use: the aspiration for emancipation versus the power of gender traditions; 1 Healthy women, healthy society: ICT and the need for women's empowerment in Yemen; Introduction; Study rationale; Research approach; Findings from the pre- and post-intervention questionnaires; Processing health information; What are women's sources for obtaining reproductive health information?; Making health decisions. |
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Who was/were the decision-maker(s) in the family pertaining to women's reproductive health care?Reflection on the quantitative results; Findings from the interviews; Roles of ICTs in women's lives; A role for ICTs in obtaining health information?; Health decision-making; Poverty; Health care, self-care?; Discussion; Conclusions and recommendations; Notes; References; 2 Computer proficiency and women's empowerment: gendered experiences of ICT at the University of Khartoum; Introduction; Methodology; Results; ICT access and skill: gender differences; Perceptions and inferiority. |
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A 'gender-neutral' policy in a gendered contextFemale student computer proficiency; Discussion; Social norms and their effect on capability; Students' sense of well-being in relation to their agency; Implications of women's perceptions of their capabilities and functionings; Women taking the opportunity: greater self-confidence and technological engagement; Conclusions and recommendations; References; 3 Towards non-gendered ICT education: the hidden curriculum at the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe; Introduction; Research methods; Results: what did we learn? |
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Gendered career distributionThe stereotype that female students are incapable of learning programming; Lecturers' gendered performance expectations and student support; Female students do not participate in class; Female students who excelled in programming; Support from lecturers; Industrial attachments (internships); Availability of resources; Rising to the challenge; Computing lecturers gain awareness of their sexist attitude and its effects; Discussion: impact on the female students' career choices; Conclusions and recommendations; References. |
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4 Equal opportunities on an unequal playing field: the potential for social change in the ICT workplace. |
| Summary |
The most comprehensive analysis available on the link between ICT and women''s empowerment. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects -- Africa.
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Information technology -- Social aspects. |
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Africa. |
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Women -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Africa.
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Women -- Effect of technological innovations on. |
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Women. |
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Women in community organization -- Africa.
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Women in community organization. |
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Women in development -- Africa.
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Women in development. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Buskens, Ineke.
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Webb, Anne, 1963-
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Print version: Buskens, Ineke. Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East : Changing Selves, Changing Societies. London : Zed Books, ©2014 9781783600427 |
| ISBN |
9781783600441 (electronic book) |
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1783600446 (electronic book) |
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1322180865 |
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9781322180861 |
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