Pamela Donofrio-flores - Scientific-technological Change And The Role Of Women In Development

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Scientific-Technological Change
and the Role of Women in Development
edited by Pamela M, D'Onofrio-Flores and Sheila M. Pfafflin

This critique by women of male-generated and male-dominated technologies grows out of a consciousness of women as essential, yet unsalaried, participants in production processes. The authors document the ways in which women suffer from technological development in industrialized and developing countries and assess how technological developments perpetuate inequalities between nations, regions, classes, and sexes. They discuss the implementation of modern technology in agriculture and its effects on rural women, look at the position of women in the basic and applied sciences and in science policymaking, and analyze the place of women in selected technology-based industries.

Pamela M. D'Onofrio-Flores is a researcher and writer at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research UNITAR and was a member of the UNITAR delegation to the 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development UNCSTD), She was a drafter of the resolution "Women, Science, and Technology" adopted at that Conference. Sheila M. Pfafflin is president of the Association for Women in Science. After receiving her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University she worked for Bell Laboratories doing research in human behavior and learning; she is now at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the Human Resources Department.

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UNITED NATIONS INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING AND RESEARCH (UNITAR)

INSTITUT DES NATIONS UNIES POUR LA FORMATION ET LA RECHERCHE (UNITAR)

edited by
Pamela M. D'Onofrio-Flores and Sheila M. Pfafflin

First published 1982 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Main entry under title:
Scientific-technological change and the role of women in development.
(Westview's special studies in social, political, and economic development) Includes edited papers presented at the 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development.
Includes index.
Contents: Technology, economic development, and the division of labour by sex/Pamela M. D'Onofrio-Flores-Women and technology in the industrialized countries/Maria Bergom-Larsson-Women and technology in peripheral countries: an overview/Zenebeworke Tadesse-[etc.]
1. Women-Social conditions-Congresses. 2. Rural women-Social conditionsCongresses. 3. Underdeveloped areas-Women-Congresses. 4. Underdeveloped areas-Technology-Social aspects-Congresses. 5. Women in science-Congresses. I. D'Onofrio-Flores, Pamela M. II. Pfafflin, Sheila M. III. United Nations Institute for Training and Research. IV. United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (1979: Vienna, Austria) V. Series: Westview special study in social, political, and economic development.
HQ1154.S33 305.4'2 81-10463
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ISBN 13: 978-0-367-28679-8 (hbk)

As part of its contribution to the 1979 United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) and the followup thereto, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) organized an informal research group to assess various aspects of applying science and technology to development through the United Nations system. One of the activities of this group is the production and dissemination of a series of Working Papers on Science and Technology. These papers seek to provide preliminary analysis rather than definitive conclusions. Their purpose is to facilitate the access of others to the ongoing work of the group and to stimulate critical comments and reactions leading to further improvement of this work.

As UNITAR endeavours to include in its work, whenever possible, an integral component on the situation and role of women in connection with the subject under study, this series of papers on science and technology includes several papers written by women and relevant to the role of women. The production of the papers on women, science, and technology was made possible with the aid of a generous grant from the government of Norway. Revised versions of these papers make up this volume.

That the issue of the impact of scientific-technological change on the role of women in development has attained importance as an international issue may be gathered from the considerable attention it has received at the Conference of the International Women's Year, the World Population Conference, the World Food Conference, the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, the United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation Among Developing Countries, the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, and the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women.