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Nancy Hafkin

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South African computer scientist

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • The digital divide in developing countries
  • Cinderella or cyberella?
  • Women in Africa
  • Trade, society, and politics in northern Mozambique, c. 1753-1913
  • Women and development in Africa

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1937-02-20
Active to
2018-12-13

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Quotes

  • "So much of what constitutes underdevelopment is marked by isolation and lack of resources. Simply put, networking means an end to isolation and access to resources that were formerly unavailable. It opens doors and leads to avenues that were closed to most people, especially those in developing countries."
  • "Women invest their earnings in the family. Women are half of the resources of the world – if a country doesn’t invest in its female resources, it loses half of the productivity it might have."
  • "I think I was born a feminist. I was the fourth-generation of female breadwinners on my mother’s side, and I came from a family of two daughters. There wasn’t much possibility that the girls in our family would get second-class treatment. I was rather shocked when I first encountered overt sexist bias at university (this was in the Boston area of the US in the early sixties), especially in history, which was my major."
  • "So much of what constitutes underdevelopment is marked by isolation and lack of resources. Simply put, networking means an end to isolation and access to resources that were formerly unavailable. It opens doors and leads to avenues that were closed to most people, especially those in developing countries."

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