Download or read book Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology written by Hilde G. Corneliussen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores what makes women decide to pursue a career in male-dominated fields such as information technology (IT). It reveals how women experience gendered stereotypes but also how they bypass, negotiate, and challenge such stereotypes, reconstructing gender-technology relations in the process. Using the example of Norway to illuminate this challenge in Western countries, the book includes a discussion of the “gender equality paradox”, where gender equality exists in parallel with gender segregation in fields such as IT. The discussion illustrates how the norm of gender equality in some cases hinders rather than promotes efforts to increase women’s participation in technology-related roles.
Download or read book Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology written by Hilde G. Corneliussen and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores what makes women decide to pursue a career in male-dominated fields such as information technology (IT). It reveals how women experience gendered stereotypes but also how they bypass, negotiate, and challenge such stereotypes, reconstructing gender-technology relations in the process. Using the example of Norway to illuminate this challenge in Western countries, the book includes a discussion of the "gender equality paradox", where gender equality exists in parallel with gender segregation in fields such as IT. The discussion illustrates how the norm of gender equality in some cases hinders rather than promotes efforts to increase women's participation in technology-related roles.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology written by Trauth, Eileen M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 1451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology Volume 1 written by Eileen M. Trauth and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Gender Information Technology and Health written by Jinky Leilanie Del Prado- Lu and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intricate relations of gender, health, and information technology in the context of factory work and a globalized economy. Providing rich theoretical explanations to gender, health, and information technology, it shows the impact of a globalized economy on the everyday lives of women workers in a selected manufacturing sector.
Download or read book Gender Peacebuilding and Reconstruction written by Caroline Sweetman and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles explores conflict prevention through development projects in places where resources are scarce, and age-old agreements between groups come under strain.
Download or read book Women Gender and Technology written by Mary Frank Fox and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary investigation of the co-creation of gender and technology Each of the ten chapters in Women, Gender, and Technology explores a different aspect of how gender and technology work--and are at work--in particular domains, including film narratives, reproductive technologies, information technology, and the profession of engineering. The volume's contributors include representatives of over half a dozen different disciplines, and each provides a novel perspective on the foundational idea that gender and technology co-create one another. Together, their articles provide a window on to the rich and complex issues that arise in the attempt to understand the relationship between these profoundly intertwined notions.
Download or read book Gender Information Technology and Developing Countries written by Nancy J. Hafkin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender Expertise and Information Technology written by Marja Vehviläinen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "This book explores the interwoven construction of gender, expertise, and information technology by starting from three positions of information systems development in Finland -- male computing pioneers' autobiographical accounts, women developers' oral histories, and an office workers' study circle with related interviews -- and, fourthly, from the codes of ethics of international computing professionals' associations ACM and IFIP. By applying Dorothy Smith's theory of conceptual practices of power, information technology is understood as textuality in which texts, e.g. programs, professional journals and electronic messages, are produced and interpreted through people's particular practices and by using particular knowledges of information technology. Both practices and knowledges -- the expertise of information technology -- are organized within materially-based social relations. Gender intertwines with information technology through social practices. Gender is studied on the level of social -- often textually mediated -- relations, in terms of gendering hierarchies and divisions of labour, but also -- inspired by Donna Haraway -- at the level of subjectivity, in terms of definitions of information technology made by subjects. The second major aim of this work is to participate in the development of methodologies on gender and technology research. The study pays attention to persistently male tendencies of information technology but it looks for spaces available for women as well. The computing professions inherited strict gender hierarchies from the punched card systems of the 1950s, and those were strengthened by fraternities of former army acquaintences, in everyday practices of systems development, in public worlds of professional journals and associations, as well as within images of identity. In this setting, the view of male experts and managers gained a status of objective truth. In the 1970s and 1980s, the ideas of flexible management and work design made space for participatory approaches towards systems design. At the same time, large numbers of women entered information technology professions in Finland. Yet, that view of objective truth has not been thoroughly challenged, and there has been little room for textualities developed from women's or any other particular groups' standpoints within information technology expertise. People such as office workers can develop technologies based on their everyday life situations, and this is a real opportunity for challenging both the gendering and the expertise of technology. However, the work done in particular settings does not translate to publicly available textuality."
Download or read book Gender Health and Information Technology in Context written by E. Balka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.
Download or read book Women and Technology written by Urs E. Gattiker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Women and Technology".
Download or read book Gender Dynamics and Post conflict Reconstruction written by Christine Eifler and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume by international authors deals with the role of gender dynamics in the development of post-conflict societies. The authors describe and analyze diverse aspects of the intertwining of gender and other social and cultural relations from an interdisciplinary perspective. They analyze gendered post-conflict dynamics in diverse contexts asking for the consequences these developments have in the settings under investigation, such as Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Palestine and Afghanistan.
Download or read book Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts written by Booth, Shirley and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book deals with diffe four features of the burgeoning knowledge society: gender, equity, learning, and information technology with the focus on gender - not in the taken-for-granted biological sense of sex but in the socially constituted sense of it"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Women Gender and Technology written by Mary Frank Fox and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary investigation of the co-creation of gender and technology Each of the ten chapters in Women, Gender, and Technology explores a different aspect of how gender and technology work--and are at work--in particular domains, including film narratives, reproductive technologies, information technology, and the profession of engineering. The volume's contributors include representatives of over half a dozen different disciplines, and each provides a novel perspective on the foundational idea that gender and technology co-create one another. Together, their articles provide a window on to the rich and complex issues that arise in the attempt to understand the relationship between these profoundly intertwined notions.
Download or read book Gender and Information Technology Moving Beyond Access to Co Create Global Partnership written by Kirk, Mary and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the decline in female involvement in technology and other discrimination related to the industry"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Gender Designs IT written by Isabel Zorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can information technology (IT) paradigms and design processes be studied from a gender perspective? What does IT design look like when its construction is informed by gender research? Though gender research and computing science seem like two separate worlds, this book proves how inspirational a confrontation and combination of those worlds can be. A deconstructive analysis of advanced fields of computing shows the multiple ways in which software design is gendered and how gendering effects are produced by its use. Concepts and assumptions underlying research and development, along with design tools and IT products, teaching methods and materials are studied. The book not only offers a gender analysis of information society technologies, it also shows practical examples of how IT can be different. A gender perspective on IT design can serve as an eye-opener for what tends to be overlooked and left out. It yields innovative ideas and high quality software systems that may empower a large diversity of users for an active participation in our information society.
Download or read book Reconstruction of women roles An Analysis written by Dr. Sravana Jyothi Doddapaneni & Shakila Bhanu Sk. and published by Laxmi Book Publication. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rise in female entrepreneurship signifies progress for women's rights and improvement in their social and economic lives. Women's entrepreneurship and female empowerment go hand in hand. Similar to their male counterparts, female business owners contribute significantly to the nation's Gross National Product (GNP) in terms of innovation, employment generation, and more. When women and men enjoy an equal playing field, economies flourish. Entrepreneurship can work as an instrument of innovation. Despite the social obstacles, Indian women stand out from the other women and are praised for their accomplishments in their various fields. Indian women had to alter their way of life in order to accommodate the changing social structure of Indian society, which was brought about by the growing educated standing of women and their diverse desires for a better life. This article aims to review studies on women's entrepreneurial and creative thinking in India. To clarify the study, some examples from India were also included.
