Mutable technology, immutable gender: Qualifying the “co-construction of gender and technology” approach

Juárez, Adriana Gil; Samuel-Lajeunesse, Joel Feliu i; Vitores, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2017.11.014

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“…His second camp makes a technological determinist argument (Winner, 1980): that ICTs can empower women in developing countries and transform gender relations. Science and technology studies offers a co-construction argument, that gender relations in society are remarkably stable and durable, reproducing themselves as people create and use technologies in society, and yet, technology can be flexibly reinterpreted, re-designed, or performed in ways that move beyond stable categories and showcase women's agency (Wajcman, 1991b;Cockburn & Ormrod, 1993;Gil-Juárez, Feliu, & Vitores, 2018).…”

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Developing women as ICT users: a miniature scoping review of gender and ICTs for development

Williams

Artzberger

2019

Gender, Technology and Development

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There is room for topical and theoretical expansion in the literature on gender and ICT4D (information and communications technologies for development) to better prepare critiques and policy applications that improve gender equity. A constructivist approach was taken to understand the relationship between gender and technology utilizing insights from science and technology studies. Existing theory on the relationship between gender and technology was conceptualized as three categories: women using ICTs as laborers, women using ICTs for leisure, and ICTs as infrastructure impacting women.Thirty articles from four journals (Gender, Technology, and

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Developing women as ICT users: a miniature scoping review of gender and ICTs for development

Williams

Artzberger

2019

Gender, Technology and Development

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“…As we have shown, our women in ICT are still playing in a loaded game. As previous research has found, the ICT sector is not a gender-neutral place to work (Faulkner, 2009;Scott-Dixon, 2004;Gil-Ju arez et al, 2018). Even if they are women committed and satisfied with their jobs and despite knowing they can enjoy better salaries and stability than in other sectors, their work trajectories are affected by their gender.…”

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Women working in ICT: situation and possibilities of progress in Catalonia and Spain

Bosch

Freude

Samaranch

et al. 2021

Gender, Technology and Development

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The ICT sector is becoming a strategic and growing sector in our current societies and economies. However, gender inequalities persist and women's representation in ICT is still low in Catalonia and Spain. In this article, we introduce the situation of women working in ICT and seek to identify the main barriers and opportunities for their progress. We implemented a survey that was answered by 325 women working in ICT in Catalonia. Our results show that women in ICT do not always access ICT jobs from an engineering degree, are satisfied with their jobs and enjoy better salaries than in other sectors, and that some flexi-time measures and other working conditions may play in their favor. This needs to be highlighted in order to encourage many more women to work in ICT. However, our results also suggest that too many women still suffer gender-based discrimination, work-life balance conflicts, and serious difficulties in being promoted. This also needs to be addressed if we are to improve the numbers of women in ICT.

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“…The associated diversification of skills considered relevant to the notion of work, including communicative competence, may seemingly contribute to a changing Discourse of what it means to be a competent professional (Cameron 2014;Hultgren 2017). However, the underlying gendering processes identified above in fact contribute to powerful constructs associating notions of what it means to be an efficient, competent and reputable professional in the global North with masculinity, and they foster, especially in the field of IT, the 'ideological marriage of masculinity and technical competency' (Carrigan 2018, 345; see also Gil-Juárez, Feliu, and Vitores 2018). It is therefore imperative that agile ways of working, increasingly implemented globally and largely accompanied by positive Discourses of globalisation and digitalisation across different geopolitical contexts, are contextualised within the gendered IT industry and continue to be analysed through a critical gender lens.…”

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Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication

Mullany¹,

Schnurr²

2022

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This edited collection investigates the linguistics of globalisation, geopolitics and gender in workplace cultures in a range of different contemporary international settings. The chapters examine how issues of globalisation, gender and geopolitics affect professionals in different workplace contexts, including domestic workers; IT professionals; teachers, university staff; engineers; entrepreneurs; CEOs of different corporates including locally based businesses as well as multinationals; farmers; co-operative leaders; NGO leaders; bloggers; healthcare assistants and caregivers.Taking different sociolinguistic approaches to exploring language and the geopolitics of gender at work in Dubai,

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Mutable technology, immutable gender: Qualifying the “co-construction of gender and technology” approach

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Developing women as ICT users: a miniature scoping review of gender and ICTs for development

Developing women as ICT users: a miniature scoping review of gender and ICTs for development

Women working in ICT: situation and possibilities of progress in Catalonia and Spain

Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication

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