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Women, Work and Computing

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Cambridge University Press, Dec 28, 2000 - Business & Economics - 209 pages
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.
  

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Contents

The myth of the neutral computer
1
Computers communication and change
30
Softech a twentyfirstcentury organisation
50
Male and female pathways through the unit
89
Hybrids and hierarchies
122
Understanding the relationship between gender and skill
146
The female future and new subjectives
173
is the future female?
186
List of references
198
Index
205
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Ruth Woodfield is Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex.

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