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GENDER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: a select annotated bibliography

Includes works on the following themes: gender inequities in scientific and technical educational programs in industrialized and developing countries; gender as a factor in the design, production, and reception of AI and IT systems; gender identity and cultural values associated with individual and community use of Internet communication and other information technologies; occupational segregation by sex in the computing industry; and discourse analyses of gender stereotypes in journalism and advertisements about IT.

Adam, Alison (1998) Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine. London and New York: Routledge.-- “demonstrates how gender is inscribed in AI-based systems”

Berg, Anne-Jorunn, “Technological flexibility: Bringing gender into technology (or was it the other way round?),” pp. 94-110 in Cynthia Cockburn and Ruza Furst-Dilic, eds. Bringing Technology Home: Gender and technology in a changing Europe. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1994.--describes the domestic reception of the Minitel

Cassell, Justine, and Jenkins, Henry (1998) From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Cambridge: MIT Press.--various essays and interviews concerning gender in the design and marketing of computer games

Cherny, Lynn, and Weise, Elizabeth Reba, eds. (1996) Wired_Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace. Seal Press.--personal accounts by women describing how gender affects communicating on the Internet

Davis, Cinda-Sue, et al. (1996) The Equity Equation: Fostering the Advancement of Women in the Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.--critiques policies, programs, and values in education and industry that limit the representation of women in scientific and technical disciplines and professions

Douglas, Susan J. (1995) Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. Random House.--explores media stereotypes concerning gender roles

Everts, Saskia (1999). Gender and Technology: Empowering Women, Engendering Development. Zed Books.

Evetts, Julia (1996) Gender and Career in Science and Engineering. London: Taylor and Francis.--examines occupational segregation in career experiences of British industrial engineers

Furger, Roberta (1998) Does Jane Compute?: Preserving Our Daughters’ Place in the Cyber Revolution. Warner Books.--describes problem of gender inequity in computer education and outlines strategies to combat it.

Green, E., Owen, J., and Pain, D., eds. (1993) Gendered by Design: Information Technology and Office Systems. London: Taylor and Francis.

Hapnes, Tove, and Sorenson, Knut (1995) “Competition and Collaboration in Male Shaping of Computing: A Study of Norwegian Hacker Culture,” pp. 174-191 in The Gender-Technology Relation: Contemporary Theory and Research, eds. Keith Grint and Rosalind Gill. London: Taylor and Francis.

Harcourt, Wendy, ed. (1999) Women@Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace. London and New York: Zed Books.--global survey and analysis of women’s participation in cyberspace

Hopkins, Patrick D., ed. (1998) Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.--contains sections on gendered aspects of computer culture and machines

Kirkup, G. and Keller, L., eds. (1992) Inventing Women: Science, Technology, and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Kunda, Gideon (1992) Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.--description and analysis of normative controls within a particular computer company

MacKenzie, Donald, and Wajcman, Judy (1999) The Social Shaping of Technology, second edition. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press.--contains essays on gender in relation to word-processing programs and computer operations systems and their development

McIlwee, Judith Sansom, and Robinson, J. Gregg (1992) Women in Engineering: Gender, Power, and Workplace Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press.--describes “the unequal patterns of career development” for male and female engineers

Millar, Melanie Stewart (1998) Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World? Toronto: Second Story Press.-- discourse analysis of IT advertising/journalism “exposing the sexism and racism that permeate digital culture”

Miller, Laura (1995) “Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier” pp.49-57 in Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information. City Light Books. Republished in Clark, Carol Lea (1999) The Wired Society. Harcourt Brace.

Plant, Sadie (1997) Zeroes and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture. New York: Doubleday.--analyzes historical and contemporary interrelationships of women and computing technology

Seymour, Elaine (1995) “The Loss of Women from Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Undergraduate Majors: An Explanatory Account.” Science Education 79 (4): 437-473.--ethnographic study examining “a misfit” between female students’ expectations and those of faculty and peers regarding “purpose and nature of the undergraduate experience” in SME majors

Sundin, Elizabeth (1997) “Gender and Technology: Mutually Constituting and Limiting,” pp.249-268 in Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society, ed. Boel Berner. Stockholm: Linkoping University.--considers gendered aspects of a Swedish technology curriculum

Tierney, Margaret (1995) “Negotiating a Software Career: Informal Work Practices and ‘The Lads’ in a Software Installation” pp. 192-209 in The Gender-Technology Relation: Contemporary Theory and Research, eds. Keith Grint and Rosalind Gill.

Turkle, Sherry (1997) Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Simon and Schuster.--examines human identity as a product of interacting with computers and considers gender differences

Vehvilainen, Marja (1997) “Women’s Groups, Standpoints, Technical Subjectivities, and ‘Ecriture Feminine’ in Technology: Methodologies of Gender and Technology Research” pp. 157-186 in Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society, ed. Boel Berner.--reviews social context of IT work in relation to Finnish case study

Webster, Juliet (1997) “Information Technology, Women and their Work” pp. 141-156 in Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society, ed. Boel Berner. --summarizes the impact of IT on women’s work and gendered aspects of IT workplace

Women and Technology: Historical, Societal, and Professional Perspectives (1999) Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Technology and Society. Piscataway: IEEE.

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