IT Industry and Women’s Agency: Explorations in Bangalore and Delhi, India

Kelkar, Govind; Shrestha, Girija; Nanjappa, Veena

doi:10.1080/09718524.2002.11910027

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“…In this respect, gender is a marker that continues to sort out high‐tech from low‐tech. Most women in the IT global workforce are reported to be less than 30 years of age, and predominantly employed in lower‐level jobs such as programming, being underrepresented in higher–level occupations, such as consulting and project management (Kelkar et al ., 2002; Suriya, 2003). Yet ironically, as increasing numbers of women enter the ICT professions, there is a drop in salaries, status and working conditions.…”

Section: Illustrations Of Ict‐enabled Service Workmentioning

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Gender matters in the global outsourcing of service work

Howcroft

Richardson

2008

New Technol Work Employ

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This paper provides a gendered analysis of the outsourcing of service work to developing economies taking, as illustration, call centres, shared service centres and the general ICT sector. The paper challenges the suggestion that changes in global capitalism, facilitated by ICT-enabled employment, offer new opportunities that benefit women, and suggests a degree of caution is needed before assuming a reduction of gender inequalities.

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Section: Illustrations Of Ict‐enabled Service Workmentioning

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Gender matters in the global outsourcing of service work

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Richardson

2008

New Technol Work Employ

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“…Studies of village pay phones in rural Bangladesh (Richardson et al, 2000) and computer-aided technologies and teleworking in Malaysia and India (Ng, 2001;Mitter, 2000;Mitter and Sen, 2000;Gothoskar, 2000;Kelkar et al, 2002) have observed that household income has increased, and women have more mobility and more say in household matters. Studies of village pay phones in rural Bangladesh (Richardson et al, 2000) and computer-aided technologies and teleworking in Malaysia and India (Ng, 2001;Mitter, 2000;Mitter and Sen, 2000;Gothoskar, 2000;Kelkar et al, 2002) have observed that household income has increased, and women have more mobility and more say in household matters.…”

Section: Women's Employment and Technological Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Relations and Technological Change in Asia

Kelkar¹,

Nathan²

2002

Current Sociology

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Gender Relations and Technological Change in AsiaS ocial changes are just as dramatic as economic and technological transformation. Technological change can also facilitate social change, turning patriarchy into 'a contested domain, rather than a sphere of cultural reproduction, leading to fundamental redefinitions of gender relations, family and sexuality' (Castells, 2000: 2-3). In particular, advances in information technologies have the potential to change the organization of work. We will look at the effects of these and earlier technological changes in the areas of gender relations and cultural ceilings. Our major questions are: how are women affecting and have been affected by these wide-ranging technological advances? How do we understand the ongoing contradiction of development policy -being efficient and productive as well as pursuing social and gender equality and sustainable human development?

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“…As observed elsewhere (Kelkar, Gaikwad & Mandal, 2015) women’s ownership of land and right to access productive assets results in the reduction of gender-based violence both within the home and outside. The land ownership and management rights tend to strengthen women’s economic agency and social position, thus enabling them to resist violence.…”

Section: Effects Of Land Ownership On Women’s Voice and Gender-based mentioning

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Women’s Agential Power in the Political Economy of Agricultural Land

Kelkar¹,

Jha²

2016

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy

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This article seeks to understand whether the legal policies and advances of women’s movements have resulted in women’s entitlement to land and whether the land reforms carried out from the 1970s to the 1990s have weakened the grip of patriarchy and increased women’s capability and land-related decision-making power. We examine these questions by looking at (i) women as producers of agricultural goods and participants in the market economy and (ii) women as partial or full owners of land and the impact of this on decision-making. In both cases, there is the role of women as managers of productive assets, which is different from their former and traditional status as dependent family members.

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IT Industry and Women’s Agency: Explorations in Bangalore and Delhi, India

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Gender matters in the global outsourcing of service work

Gender matters in the global outsourcing of service work

Gender Relations and Technological Change in Asia

Women’s Agential Power in the Political Economy of Agricultural Land

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