Women, Work and Computing

ISBN-13: 9780521777353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 222 str.

Ruth Woodfield

Opis

It has been suggested that the ideal worker for occupational computing is now the hybrid--someone with excellent interpersonal as well as technical skills. It has also been suggested that women, because of their historical relationship with such skills, find themselves faced with a golden opportunity in computing. A further claim that computers can provide women with additional opportunities insofar as they provide changes in gender consciousness has also been mooted. Via the exploration and analysis of new qualitative evidence this book assesses the likelihood of these opportunities being realized.

Recenzje

'Woodfield's discussion of her research and her detailed analysis of her interviews with Softech employees provides a fascinating window into an intense and highly selective work environment. This together with her discussion of the nature and validity of ethnographic work makes this book an excellent model for post-graduate research students designing similar studies of work environments.' Sociology

Spis treści

1. Gender and the development of computer culture: the myth of the neutral computer; 2. Computers, communication and change: making way for the hybrids; 3. Softech: a 'twenty-first century organisation'; 4. Male and female pathways through the unit; 5. Hybrids and hierarchies; 6. Towards a framework for understanding the relationship between gender and skill in the unit; 7. The female future and new subjectivities; 8. Conclusion: is the future female?