Message-ID: <199504291720.MAA11419@mercury.forestry.umn.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 12:20:17 -0500 From: "Rolfe A. Leary" <mailto:rleary@MERCURY.FORESTRY.UMN.EDU> Subject: Women, technology, To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
Fellow netters:I recently participated in a meeting about appropriate technology for post-harvest food processing in developing countries, and a member of the Board spoke about how importance it was that our efforts to develop post-harvest food processing be directed at the persons who currently do that kind of work in developing countries.
It was asserted that while women currently do most post-harvest food processing, when technologies are developed, usually by men, in the "developed world" and introduced to these countries, it is the developing country males who take them over, and benefit at the expense of women.
Could someone point me in the direction of documented cases of this phenomenon?
Thank you very much.
Rolfe A. Leary President, Board of Directors Compatible Technology, Inc. Minneapolis, MN 55419