Technology and Women's Empowerment

Herausgeber: Lechman, Ewa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the reader broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies impact women's economic and social empowerment and hence have an impact on overall welfare creation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780367493721
• ISBN-10: 0367493721
• Artikelnr.: 67825189

Autorenporträt

Ewa Lechman is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdäsk University of Technology, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Digital technologies and women empowerment - casting the bridges 2.
Mobile phone technologies as an opportunity for women's financial
inclusion: What does the evidence say? 3. Women empowering themselves
to fit into ICT 4. The role of social technologies in women's
empowerment perception: an international comparison 5. A
multidimensional analysis of the digital gender gap in European Union
Member States 6. ICT usage at work as a way to reduce the gender
earnings gap among European entrepreneurs 7. Self-employment of
women: an opportunity or the last resort? 8. ICT and women's careers:
Using grassrootes ICT to expand women's participation in
nontraditional careers 9. Gender and support: Polish women at the
beginning of their professional career in IT. 10. ICT for women's
poverty alleviation: What does the theory and the practice tell us?
11. "When people come to me for suggestions, I feel like an expert":
Empowering women through smartphones in rural Bangladesh 12. Female
unemployment in an emerging economy: A study of online social support
as a coping strategy 13. ICT and women's economic empowerment: A
cross-country analysis through investigating the impact of ICT on
women financial inclusion