Message-ID: <9504291933.AA10766@student4.cl.msu.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 15:33:52 -0400 From: Douglas C Wilson <mailto:wilsond9@STUDENT.MSU.EDU> Subject: Women, technology To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
Rolfe Leary wrote: >
>" 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?"
>
> I think that the relationship is not quite as direct as implied here.
I would describe a common pattern as increased need for capital and increase profits attracting new investors with capital to invest, and these new investors are mainly male. An example I would offer is fish processing on Lake Victoria where changes in species composition of the catch and some new processing technology (both intermediate and highly capital intensive) that came with these changes displaced huge numbers of women who had been traditionally involved in processing the catch. The vast majority of the people who moved in were male.Doug Wilson Michigan State University mailto:WILSOND9@STUDENT.MSU.EDU