Swasti Mitter

Swasti Mitter (22 May 1939 – 1 May 2016)[1] was a researcher into gender and development. She held posts as Professor of Gender and Technology at the University of Brighton, and as a Deputy Director of the UNU Institute of New Technologies at the University of Maastricht (Now UNU-MERIT). Her main area of research involved exploring the ways Information Technologies have influenced employment patterns for women in less developed countries. [2]

Selected publications

Mitter, S. (1986). Common fate, common bond: Women in the global economy. London: Pluto.[3][4]

Mitter, S., & Rowbotham, S. (1995). Women encounter technology: Changing patterns of employment in the Third World. London: Routledge.

Mitter, S., Pearson, R., Ng, C., & International Labour Organisation. (1992). Global information processing: The emergence of software services and data entry jobs in selected developing countries. Geneva: ILO.

References

  1. ↑ Swasti Mitter obituary
  2. ↑ British Academy: Craft and World Commerce - Participant's Biography - Swasti Mitter (2005) (Accessed March 2012)
  3. ↑ Banarjee, R. (January 01, 1988). Common fate, common bond: women in the global economy. Feminist Review, 30, 118-120
  4. ↑ Bučar, M. (1987). Swasti Mitter: Common fate, common bond. Women in global economy: Pluto Press, London, 1986. 177 p. International Monetary System and Developing Countries, 177-178.
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