Technology and Women''s Empowerment

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ewa (Gdansk Univ. Of Tech. Lechman, Ewa (Gdansk University of Technology Lechman
• Assisted by: Ewa Lechman (Editor), Lechman Ewa (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367493721
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49372-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Business and Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business, Business & management, Information technology industries, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Microeconomics