Developing small engineering technologies for women
1995
Bautista, E.U. | Vasallo, A.B. | Orge, R.F. | Diaz, C.P. | Paris, T.R. (Philippine Rice Research Inst., Munoz, Nueva Ecija (Philippines). Rice Engineering and Mechanization Div.)
Women's ideas are important in the development of engineering technologies. Their roles from evaluators to decisionmakers for adoption to actual use are critical to the acceptance of new technologies in the rural areas. In the development of micromill the rice hull stove, and the flour mill technologies, the women cooperators have proven to be capable of participating in the refinement of prototypes and in providing researchers with insights which are proving to be important in the development and promotion. Their views and responses have to be considered not only with these designs but also with others which are exclusively intended for men's use. The increasing popularity of the micromill and the rice hull stove which PhilRice has started to promote can be attributed to the sensitivity given by both engineers and social scientists to rural women's concerns and needs. It is important to extend such approaches to other types of development of non-mechanical technologies to consider to include, if not shift, the focus of development to the women in the farming system
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