Women, Work and Computerization
Women, Work and Computerization

Author: A. Frances Grundy

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1997-05-20

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9783540626107

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This volume considers the submissions to the 6th International IFIP-TC 9/WG 9.1 Conference on Women, Work and Computerization WWC 97. The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and users in the field of information technology. In this book the authors discuss how different areas of society are being transformed by computer technology, but with particular emphasis on changes in women's work and life and how these have come about. Such transformations include the transitions from women's traditional work to work based on modern technology; from communicating within personal communities to communicating within virtual communities; from traditional job gendering to new perspectives on "who does what".

Women, Work and Computerization
Women, Work and Computerization

Author: Ellen Balka

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 038735509X

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ELLENBALKA Simon Fraser University ebalka@Sfu. ca 1. INTRODUCTION In developing the call for papers for the 7th International Federation of Information Processors (IFIP) Women, Work and Computerization Conference, we sought to cast our net widely. We wanted to encourage presenters to think broadly about women, work and computerization. Towards this end, the programme committee developed a call for papers that, in its final form, requested paper submissions around four related themes. These are (1) Setting the Course: Taking Stock of Where We Are and Where We're Going; (2) Charting Undiscovered Terrain: Creating Models, Tools and Theories; (3) Navigating the Unknown: Sex, Time, Space and Place, and (4) Taking the Helm: Education and Pedagogy. Our overall conference theme, 'Charting a Course to the Future' was inspired in part by Vancouver's geography, which is both coastal and mountainous. As such, navigation plays an important part in the lives of many as we seek to enjoy our environs. In addition, as the first Women, Work and Computerization conference of the new millennium, we hoped to encourage the broad community of scholars that has made past Women, Work and Computerization conferences a success to actively engage in imagining--and working towards-- a better future for women in relation to computers. The contributions to this volume are both a reflection of the hard work undertaken by many to improve the situation of women in relation to computerization, and a testament to how much work is yet to be done.

Women, Work, and Computerization
Women, Work, and Computerization

Author: Inger V. Eriksson

Publisher: North Holland

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13:

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This volume considers the impact of information technology on women's employment and education by examining two main themes: the effect of women's perspectives on systems analysis and design; and the factors which lead to the under-representation of women in the computer profession, and in particular, to the low numbers of female students of computer science and informatics. Statistics on participation of women in the computer industry are included, along with theories and empirical findings on participatory design of office systems and case studies on the impact of information technology on gendered division of labour. Papers suggesting ways of overcoming the problems faced both by women users of computer systems and by women entering the computing profession complete the volume.

Shaping Women's Work
Shaping Women's Work

Author: Juliet Webster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 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.

Women, Work, and Computerization
Women, Work, and Computerization

Author: Kea Tijdens

Publisher: North Holland

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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The implications of computerization in the workplace - benefits and problems - are the themes of this book, with the emphasis firmly placed on women's points of view. Computerization in the office and in manufacturing are both discussed, the specific topics including organizational change, training, telework and Third World problems.

Healthy Work
Healthy Work

Author: Namir Khan

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780810852853

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This reference provides an overview of relevant literature to engineers, managers, accountants, occupational health and safety specialists, and industrial hygienists, so that they, and other professionals, can understand what has caused our workplaces to become primary sources of physical and mental illness.

Women, Work, and Computerization
Women, Work, and Computerization

Author: Alison Adam

Publisher: North-Holland

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13:

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Paperback. An international acknowledgement of the problems existing in the area of gender and computing in the 1990s is provided by this publication. The need to produce strategies and policies to rectify the situation is highlighted. Papers, both reporting original empirical research and postulating interesting theoretical perspectives are structured around five parallel themes: Community, Communications and Information Networks; Information Technology (IT), Flexibility and Restructuring; Information Systems Design and User-Centred Perspectives; Education, Training and Learning; and Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Power, Knowledge and Technology.

Temporary
Temporary

Author: Hilary Leichter

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 156689574X

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In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.