Description
| Product ID: | 9781442244269 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Women, Work, and the Web |
| Subtitle: | How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities |
| Authors: | Author: Carol Smallwood |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Information technology: general topics, Entrepreneurship, Information technology: general issues |
| Description: | Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities is by contributors from the United States and Canada sharing how the Internet has opened doors, leveled the playing field, and provided new opportunities for women to earn money using technology. In a tight economy women entrepreneurs are making progress in a field that has been traditionally (along with science, math, and engineering) one which women haven’t been well represented—technology. Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities is by contributors from the United States and Canada sharing how the Internet has opened doors, leveled the playing field, and provided new opportunities. How the Internet has helped women with young children, caretakers of disabled family members, women with disabilities. How it has helped female veterans gain employment, put women into work boots, publish in a male dominated world, become editors, online instructors, and hold the First International Day of the Girl. The twenty-eight chapters are divided into five parts: •Fostering Change•Running a Business•Educational Applications•Personal Aspects•Publishing and Writing.It is exciting to see how the creative contributors of different ages, backgrounds, and goals, are using the Web to further their careers and the status of other women as they progress online. |
| Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-12-11 |
