Doing IT demonstrates that women fill a wide variety of technological occupations, yet continue to face barriers preventing them from reaching their full professional potential. Scott-Dixon examines the IT environment's traditional workplace that keeps gender, race, class, ability and pay inequities firmly in place. Drawing on personal interviews, she shows that despite these barriers, women in IT bring passion to their jobs and draw on their intelligence and creative resourcefulness to shape their career paths.
Doing IT demonstrates that women fill a wide variety of technological occupations, yet continue to face barriers preventing them from reaching their f...
While the introduction and commentary provide a theoretical overview, this book contains ten essays which examine theories of intersectionality to demonstrate how race, class, sexual orientation, gender and identity have been integrated into legal scholarship and activism in an attempt to shape legal policy and practice.
While the introduction and commentary provide a theoretical overview, this book contains ten essays which examine theories of intersectionality to dem...
The digital world, its advertising machinery and the popular media are pushing women back into traditional roles and once again creating a superior hypermacho expert male. This work explores power relations in the digital world and asks us to question what is really going on. How is technology shaping our future?
The digital world, its advertising machinery and the popular media are pushing women back into traditional roles and once again creating a superior hy...
Twenty-three women, teaching at colleges and universities throughout Canada, explore how traditional views of motherhood have been influenced by changing social and cultural conditions. Their essays unravel patriarchal constructions of motherhood and re-pr
Twenty-three women, teaching at colleges and universities throughout Canada, explore how traditional views of motherhood have been influenced by chang...
This collection of seventeen essays presents original and critical perspectives from writers, scholars and activists on issues that are pertinent to Aboriginal women and their communities in both rural and urban settings in Canada. Their contributions explore the critical issues facing Native women as they rebuild and revive their communities. Through topics such as the role of tradition, reclaiming identities and protecting Native children and the environment, they identify the restraints that shape their actions and the inspirations that feed their visions.The contributors address issues of...
This collection of seventeen essays presents original and critical perspectives from writers, scholars and activists on issues that are pertinent to A...
African-American feminists have influenced thinking and writing in Canada. As well, Black-Canadian feminists have published on a wide range of issues relating to Black women's lives, history and experience. This book builds on this literature and maps out a space in which to articulate a vision of African-Canadian feminism.
African-American feminists have influenced thinking and writing in Canada. As well, Black-Canadian feminists have published on a wide range of issues ...
