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In the 1980s, feminist scholarship on the changing relation between gender and technology has documented the pervasive influence of new technologies on the lived experiences of women and men at home and abroad. This new literature is part of the emerging interdisciplinary field of "science, technology, and society," which draws on the perspectives of engineering, and social sciences, Marxism, and labor studies, as well as feminism. Feminists have researched the impact of new technology on the workplace, the household, reproduction, and the production and acquisition of technological knowledge and values. This review focuses on studies of how changing technologies in unpaid and paid work have affected the experiences and meanings of gender in the First and the Third Worlds. We have been told that computerized and electronic technologies will improve working conditions, ease life in general, and |
