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Technology and rural women in Africa

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  • Carr, Marilyn.

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Working paper on the failure of technological change to improve rural women working conditions and living conditions in Africa - presents examples of inappropriate choice of technology in relation to woman worker time budget (farming and homemaker unpaid work) and labour-saving technology, needs analyses other causes (sexual division of labour, income, handicrafts, etc.), And recommends modification of agricultural extension training. Bibliography pp. 43 to 45 and statistical tables.

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  • Carr, Marilyn., 1980. "Technology and rural women in Africa," ILO Working Papers 992038573402676, International Labour Organization.
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    1. Ahmed, Iftikhar,, 1978. "Technological change and the condition of rural women : a preliminary assessment," ILO Working Papers 991795123402676, International Labour Organization.
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