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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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dc.contributor.authorJacobsen, Joyce
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-26T15:42:40Z
dc.date.available2012-06-26T15:42:40Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/9239
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9239
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectWorld Development Report 2012
dc.titleThe Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technologyen
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaGender
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-05T11:46:46.219734Z
okr.globalpracticeTransport and ICT
okr.globalpracticeWater
okr.globalpracticeEnergy and Extractives
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.administrativeEurope and Central Asia
okr.region.administrativeMiddle East and North Africa
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.relation.associatedurlhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4391
okr.topicEnergy
okr.topicGender
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies
okr.topicScience and Technology Development
okr.topicWater Supply and Sanitation
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