Author: Swasti MitterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information technology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Women Encounter Technology
Author: Swasti MitterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information technology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Women Encounter Technology
Author: Swasti MitterWomen Encounter Technology
Author: United Nations UniversityPublisher:
ISBN: 9789280808780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Women Encounter Technology
Author: Swasti MitterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134799500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.
Women Encounter Information Technology
Author: Swasti MityterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780415126878
Category : Information technology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Retaining Women in Tech
Author: Karen HoltzblattPublisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN: 1636392938
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
For over 40 years, the tech industry has been working to attract more women. Yet, women continue to be underrepresented in technology jobs compared to other professions. Worse, once hired, women leave the field mid-career twice as often as men. In 2013, Karen Holtzblatt launched The Women in Tech Retention Project at WITops.org, dedicated to understanding what helps women in tech thrive. In 2014, Nicola Marsden joined the effort, bringing her extensive knowledge and research on gender and bias for women in tech. Together with worldwide volunteers, this research identified what helps women thrive and practical interventions to improve women’s experience at work. In this book, we share women’s stories, our research, relevant literature, and our perspective on making change to help retain women. All the research and solutions we share are based on deep research and user-centered ideation techniques. Part I describes the @Work Experience Framework and the six key factors that help women thrive: a dynamic valuing team; stimulating projects; the push into challenges with support; local role models; nonjudgmental flexibility to manage home/work balance; and developing personal power. Employees thinking of leaving their job have significantly lower scores on these factors showing their importance for retention. Part II describes tested interventions that redesign work practices to better support women, diverse teams, and all team members. We chose these interventions guided by data from over 1,000 people from multiple genders, ethnicities, family situations, and countries. Interventions target key processes in tech: onboarding new hires; group critique meetings; and Scrum. Interventions also address managing interpersonal dynamics to increase valuing and decrease devaluing behaviors and techniques for teams to define, monitor, and continuously improve their culture. We conclude by describing our principles for redesigning processes with an eye toward issues important to women and diverse teams.
Information and Communication Technologies for Women's Socioeconomic Empowerment
Author: Samia MelhemPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821381342
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This paper reviews how women in the developing world access and use information and communication technology (ICT). It examines the discourse and controversies surrounding the digital gender divide, including links to poverty and illiteracy. Major themes concerning women and ICTs are explored, such as women in the ICT workforce, how girls and women relate differently to ICT, and opportunities and barriers for women in science and technology in general. Current research relating to gender and ICT is often country-specific and is more prevalent in developed countries than in developing countries. This paper suggests where additional research is needed on barriers to women s entry and access to ICT. The overall objective of this paper is to influence policy dialogue around women and ICT for development by raising awareness of the digital gender divide. Economic opportunity for women in ICT will not be realized until policies address gender considerations and ensure that ICT investment contributes to more sustainable and equitable development.
Women and Information Technology
Author: J. McGrath CohoonPublisher: Mit Press
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Experts investigate the reasons for low female participation in computing and suggest strategies for moving toward parity through studies of middle and high school girls, female students and postsecondary computer science programs, and women in the information technology workforce.
Gender, Information Technology, and Developing Countries
Author: Nancy J. HafkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital divide
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Bodies of Technology
Author: Ann Rudinow SaetnanPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 9780814208465
Category : Cross-cultural studies
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This work is based on a concern for women's health and autonomy and on the premise that technology and society mutually shape one another. A basic question is one of cultural appropriation. Do technologies take on different shapes, different practices, and have different impacts as they spread from one place to another? By juxtaposing a number of culturally and historically contextualized studies of similar technologies, the editors demonstrate that although technologies globalize by spreading among cultures, they are also localized by the cultures they encounter.