Women, Technology and Development is a compendium of sixteen chapters covering topics ranging from women health issues to utilization of renewable sources of energy and employment generation. It deals with the strategies for the technical, economic and social empowerment of women and their overall development in the current situation, with emphasis on the role of technologies.

Women have unique health care needs and are responsible for health care of both themselves and their family. The importance of nutritional and medicinal values of traditional food plants, safe drinking water and control of diseases caused by vectors are presented and information on how green technologies suchas biofertilizers and biopesticides would help women practice safe agriculture. This book will serve as a useful source of information for female empowerment.