Shaping Women's Work

Shaping Women's Work
Author: Juliet Webster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317893484

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A new book offering a broad overview of the debates about technologies and gender relations at work in a range of occupational areas. Innovative in its approach it deals with gender relations in terms of the ways in which they influence the design and development of technologies, and how gender relations are themselves shaped by technologies. The book will draw heavily on the theoretical perspective looking at the ways in which sexual divisions of labour and gender relations in the workplace profoundly affect the direction and pace of technological change, and tracks the development of certain technologies showing how, through their evolution, they embody these social relations.

Gender and Technology at Work

Gender and Technology at Work
Author: Ellen Balka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2024-03-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1009243713

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Insights about how gender and technology interact at work framed from an ethical-political standpoint, aimed at achieving design justice.

Gender and Technology in the Making

Gender and Technology in the Making
Author: Cynthia Cockburn
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1993
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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"The authors follow the microwave's life trajectory from the design office to the factory and thence to the shops and household. Examining the different jobs women and men do, the different kinds of knowlege they contribute and the unequal importance they are ascribe in the evloution of the microwave, this book shows how technology relations continue to disadvantage women"--Back cover.

Shaping Women's Work

Shaping Women's Work
Author: Juliet Webster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317893476

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A new book offering a broad overview of the debates about technologies and gender relations at work in a range of occupational areas. Innovative in its approach it deals with gender relations in terms of the ways in which they influence the design and development of technologies, and how gender relations are themselves shaped by technologies. The book will draw heavily on the theoretical perspective looking at the ways in which sexual divisions of labour and gender relations in the workplace profoundly affect the direction and pace of technological change, and tracks the development of certain technologies showing how, through their evolution, they embody these social relations.

Gender and Technology at Work

Gender and Technology at Work
Author: Ellen Balka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2024-03-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1009243705

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This book traces the gendering of women's work and technology from its historical roots in factories, offices, IT companies, and hospitals to contemporary workplaces including platform- and AI-based work. It adopts a feminist/intersectional perspective on design with a focus on norm-critical, social justice-oriented, and decolonizing approaches.

Gender, Technology, and the Future of Work

Gender, Technology, and the Future of Work
Author: Mariya Brussevich
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1484379764

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New technologies?digitalization, artificial intelligence, and machine learning?are changing the way work gets done at an unprecedented rate. Helping people adapt to a fast-changing world of work and ameliorating its deleterious impacts will be the defining challenge of our time. What are the gender implications of this changing nature of work? How vulnerable are women’s jobs to risk of displacement by technology? What policies are needed to ensure that technological change supports a closing, and not a widening, of gender gaps? This SDN finds that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men across all sectors and occupations?tasks that are most prone to automation. Given the current state of technology, we estimate that 26 million female jobs in 30 countries (28 OECD member countries, Cyprus, and Singapore) are at a high risk of being displaced by technology (i.e., facing higher than 70 percent likelihood of being automated) within the next two decades. Female workers face a higher risk of automation compared to male workers (11 percent of the female workforce, relative to 9 percent of the male workforce), albeit with significant heterogeneity across sectors and countries. Less well-educated and older female workers (aged 40 and above), as well as those in low-skill clerical, service, and sales positions are disproportionately exposed to automation. Extrapolating our results, we find that around 180 million female jobs are at high risk of being displaced globally. Policies are needed to endow women with required skills; close gender gaps in leadership positions; bridge digital gender divide (as ongoing digital transformation could confer greater flexibility in work, benefiting women); ease transitions for older and low-skilled female workers.

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology
Author: Trauth, Eileen M.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1451
Release: 2006-06-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1591408164

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"This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.

Gender and Technology

Gender and Technology
Author: Nina Lerman
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2003-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801872594

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McGaw; Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University.

Women, Work, and Technology

Women, Work, and Technology
Author: University of Connecticut. Project on Women and Technology
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1987
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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Examines the ideological, social, and economic forces that, together with technology, influence the lives of women

Pleasure, Power and Technology

Pleasure, Power and Technology
Author: Sally Hacker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2017-01-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351995928

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How are the pleasures of making things work turned into processes of domination? Are there links between gender and military institutions? Does eroticism have something to do with engineering? In this book, first published in 1989, Sally Hacker explores the answers to these and other provocative questions about our attitudes toward work and leisure. Drawing from her broad experience as a sociologist, feminist and student of engineering, Hacker helps us to understand the impact of technology on our society and how feminist principles can be used to make work life more egalitarian and more humane. In the first part of the book, the author examines various examples of the masculinization of power, ranging from military institutions to the mechanisation of farm labour, computer technology and affirmative action. In the second part, Hacker presents the results of her research on Mondragon, the world’s largest cooperative workplace, located in Spain. Hacker reaches surprising conclusions about gender and technology at Mondragon, where, in spite of the community’s egalitarian philosophy, gender inequality was as pervasive as in capitalist and socialist systems.