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Title:
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GENDER DEMOCRACY IN DIGITAL ECONOMY: AN INDIAN EXPERIENCE |
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Author(s):
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Dr. M. Suriya , R. Nagarajan |
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ISBN:
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972-98947-5-2 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Piet Kommers and Maggie McPherson |
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Year:
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2004 |
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Edition:
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1 |
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Keywords:
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Knowledge economy; gender democracy; women in the IT labour market; gender equity . |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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71 |
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Last Page:
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78 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The spurt in the growth of knowledge economy or e- economy in the last two decades have enforced the developing
nations including India to concentrate more on the human resource development. As these countries have skipped the
agricultural and industrial revolution, they worked hard to catch up with the IT revolution by building their manpower
and network infrastructure.. Though India has a large talent pool with 1.67 million engineering and 1.54 millions of nonengineering
graduates passing out of Indias educational institutions annually, there remains a shortage of skilled labour
force. It is also estimated that the demand for IT trained manpower in India will grow up to 370,000 in the year 2008
(The Asia week May 18, 2001). The question here is how these skill shortages are to be managed and what is the share of
women in the manpower development process in the Indian sub-continent. This implies that in order to achieve genderdemocracy
in the e-society, equitable participation of the gender groups in IT education and IT employment is considered
as an essential input factor. |
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