02483cas|a2200265 i 450000500170000000800410001703500150005810000210007324500710009426000520016530000150021749000330023250001760026550200570044152013080049865000270180665000320183370000340186570000400189970000530193970000500199271000450204281000650208785600650215220260818114930.0220699s1998    th  uzm rtt  00|  a1eng d  a.b117170630 aKornvipa Boonsue10aGender planning for Thailand's industrial labour force development  aBangkok :bAsian Institute of Technology,c1998  a271 leaves1 aDissertation ;vno. HS-98-01  aA dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of  Doctor of Philosophy,  School of Environment, Resources and Development  aThesis (Ph.D.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1998  aThailand's industrialization and its export-oriented promotion of manufacturing has featured  increased employment opportunities for many young women. By the early 1990s, 90% of the  export-manufacturing labour force were women. Although such employment opportunities  benefited women, especially those with less education, there is increasing debate about the effect  of industrialization on women. Providing employment opportunities in industry for women is  considered by the United Nations Policy on Women In Development to be the major means of  integrating women into national and global development. Doubt about the success of such a  strategy has been the focus of a number of cross-cultural studies of women and industrial work.  Women have tended to be generally among the lower ranks of industrial workers, with boring,  monotonous and mechanical jobs. They were given little training, low wages and suffered  occupational health hazards.  The study reported in this paper extends such research by properly comparing women and men in  the developing economy of Thailand. It reinforces earlier findings of continuing disadvantage for  women and challenges the idea of improving the position of women through industrial growth  unless this is accompanied by specific policies targeted at women. 0aLabor supplyzThailand 0aWomenxEmploymentzThailand1 aWeber, Karl E., eChairperson1 aYap, K. S., eExamination committee1 aDarunee Tantiwiramanond, eExamination committee1 aEsterisk,  Penny Van, eExamination committee2 aThe Ford Foundation, eScholarship donor2 aAsian Institute of Technology.tDissertation ;vno. HS-98-01  3Full-Textuhttp://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B12938