Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology : : Women Doing IT for Themselves.
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Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023. ©2024. |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | XV, 133 sider; illustrasjoner, |
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505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Women Fighting Gender Stereotypes in a Gender Egalitarian Culture -- Introduction: Continuous Gender Disparity in Technology -- What makes Women Enter IT? -- Women's Underrepresentation-A Multidimensional Challenge -- Theoretical and Methodological Framework for the Book -- Empirical Material -- Analytical Framework -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2: The Unsolved Mystery of the Gender Imbalance in IT -- Introduction: A Western Challenge -- Numbers Talking -- Barriers for Women's Participation in IT -- A Nordic Gender Equality Paradox -- What Brings Women to IT? -- Effects of Recruitment Measures -- Alternative Training Arenas -- Stereotypes Affecting Supporters -- Challenging the Notion of Gender Equality -- Chapter 3: Women's Chronological Pathways to IT Education -- Introduction: Looking for Positive Drivers and Turning Points -- A Chronological Drawing of the Pathways to IT -- Pathway 1: Interest in IT as a Driving Factor -- Pathway 2: Recruited into IT Education -- Pathway 3: An Unintended and Accidental Study Choice -- Pathway 4: An Alternative Platform -- Pathway 5: A Detour before "Discovering" IT -- Pathway 6: Encouraged because IT is Suitable for Girls -- Lessons from the Pathways -- Chapter 4: Girl Power: Reconstructing the Gendered Space of IT -- Introduction: Space Invader Experiences -- Gamers, Geeks, and Hackers-Identifying the Norm as Masculine -- Claiming Visibility-Claiming Space -- Cracking the Code of Being a Girl in IT -- Alternative Interests, Motivations, and Competences -- The Space Invaders' Penalty Round -- Is it Enough to Feel like an Insider? -- Reconstructions -- Chapter 5: Girls Don't Walk Alone: Supporters' Investment in Welcoming Girls and Women into Fields of IT -- Introduction: Shifting Perspective to Supporters. | |
505 | 8 | |a Schools' Attitudes and Strategies for Supporting Women into IT -- Hesitating to Focus on Gender Differences -- Distrusting Women's Interest in Technology -- Sorting Women by Interest -- A Burden of Doubt Paired with Postfeminist Assumptions -- When Doing Nothing Appears to be the Right Thing to Do -- The Schools' Responses Versus the Women's Experiences -- Avoiding Gender Issues Reduces Schools' Role as Supporters for Women -- A Narrow Definition of Interest in IT Excludes Alternative Types of Interest -- When Gender Barriers are Cleared Away, Free Choice Remains -- Girls Still Doing IT for Themselves -- Chapter 6: Gender Patterns, Equality Paradoxes, and Lessons for an Inclusive Digital Future -- Introduction: A Global Digital Transformation -- Space Invader Lessons: Barriers, Turning Points, and Reconstructions -- Paradoxes, Postfeminism, and a Non-performative Policy -- Reconstructing Motivation with Interest as Key -- Doing IT Together with the Ecosystem -- The International Picture -- Closing Reflections: The Untapped Potential -- References. | |
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