The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technology

This paper considers the potential role of various transformative general-purpose technologies in affecting gender equity. The particular technologies considered at length and contrasted are four network technologies: electricity and water provision on the one hand, and the newer information and com...

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Main Author:	Jacobsen, Joyce
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2012
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9239

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spelling	okr-10986-92392021-04-23T14:02:44Z The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technology Jacobsen, Joyce World Development Report 2012 This paper considers the potential role of various transformative general-purpose technologies in affecting gender equity. The particular technologies considered at length and contrasted are four network technologies: electricity and water provision on the one hand, and the newer information and communications technologies of the Internet and mobile phones on the other. Available evidence on the effects of transformative technologies, both historically and in recent developing country contexts, is surveyed. The results indicate difficulties in finding cleanly measurable factors due to the complex nature of the effects of the technologies, as well as the containment of many effects in the household/nonmarket sector rather than the market sector. However, there is some optimism regarding continued expansion of electrification and the use of mobile phones in particular for improving women's empowerment. 2012-06-26T15:42:40Z 2012-06-26T15:42:40Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9239 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa Europe and Central Asia Middle East and North Africa Latin America & Caribbean East Asia and Pacific South Asia
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description	This paper considers the potential role of various transformative general-purpose technologies in affecting gender equity. The particular technologies considered at length and contrasted are four network technologies: electricity and water provision on the one hand, and the newer information and communications technologies of the Internet and mobile phones on the other. Available evidence on the effects of transformative technologies, both historically and in recent developing country contexts, is surveyed. The results indicate difficulties in finding cleanly measurable factors due to the complex nature of the effects of the technologies, as well as the containment of many effects in the household/nonmarket sector rather than the market sector. However, there is some optimism regarding continued expansion of electrification and the use of mobile phones in particular for improving women's empowerment.
author	Jacobsen, Joyce
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title	The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technology
title_short	The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technology
title_full	The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technology
title_fullStr	The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technology
title_full_unstemmed	The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technology
title_sort	role of technological change in increasing gender equity with a focus on information and communications technology
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
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The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technology

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