Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · computer games, computing, gender, hacker culture, history of computing, history of technology, technology, women
“The information technology revolution is transforming almost every aspect of society, but girls and women are largely out of the loop. Although women surf the Web in equal numbers to men and make a majority of online purchases, few are involved in the design and creation of new technology. It is mostly men whose perspectives and priorities inform the development of computing innovations and who reap the lion’s share of the financial rewards. As only a small fraction of high school and college computer science students are female, the field is likely to remain a “male clubhouse,” absent major changes.
In Unlocking the Clubhouse, social scientist Jane Margolis and computer scientist and educator Allan Fisher examine the many influences contributing to the gender gap in computing. The book is based on interviews with more than 100 computer science students of both sexes from Carnegie Mellon University, a major center of computer science research, over a period of four years, as well as classroom observations and conversations with hundreds of college and high school faculty. The interviews capture the dynamic details of the female computing experience, from the family computer kept in a brother’s bedroom to women’s feelings of alienation in college computing classes. The authors investigate the familial, educational, and institutional origins of the computing gender gap. They also describe educational reforms that have made a dramatic difference at Carnegie Mellon—-where the percentage of women entering the School of Computer Science rose from 7% in 1995 to 42% in 2000—and at high schools around the country.”
Publisher MIT Press, 2003
ISBN 0262632691, 9780262632690
182 pages
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Comment (0)ZtG Bulletin 24 Texte: Cyberfeminismus. Feministische Visionen mit Netz und ohne Boden? (2002) [German]
Filed under journal | Tags: · body, cyberfeminism, feminism, gender, internet, technology, women
Issue of ZtG Bulletin dedicated to cyberfeminism. Published by Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.
Erschienen im Februar 2002
Publisher: Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Verantwortlich: Dr. Gabi Jähnert, Geschäftsführerin
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Naomi Sakr (ed.): Women and Media in The Middle East. Power Through Self-expression (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · civil society, feminism, film, gender, islam, journalism, literacy, mass media, middle east, public broadcasting
Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women filmmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah’s TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender boundaries have been erected or crossed.
Publisher I.B.Tauris, 2004
Volume 41 of Library of modern Middle East studies
ISBN 1850435456, 9781850435457
Length 248 pages