Women, Work and Computerization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Ellen Balka

      Pages 1-8

3. The Absence of Women in Computing

   1. Making the Computer Masculine

      • Ellen Van Oost

      Pages 9-16

   2. Do Computers Transform People into Women and Men?

      • Bettina Törpel

      Pages 17-25

   3. Net Gains

      • Rosemary Pringle, Sue Nielsen, Liisa Von Hellens, Anita Greenhill, Lynne Parfitt

      Pages 26-33

   4. Women and Computing

      • D. Ramanee Peiris, Peter Gregor, V. Indigo

      Pages 34-41

4. Training and Careers

   1. The Globalization Of Gender In IT

      • M. Suriya, Androniki Panteli

      Pages 42-49

   2. Women in Computer Science

      • Iwona Miliszewska, John Horwood

      Pages 50-57

   3. Gender Differences in Vancouver Secondary Students

      • V. Chan, K. Stafford, M. Klawe, G. Chen

      Pages 58-69

   4. Why IT Doesn’t Appeal To Young Women

      • Judith Symonds

      Pages 70-77

   5. Computer Self Efficacy And Gender

      • A. Durndell, Z. Haag, D. Asenova, H. Laithwaite

      Pages 78-85

   6. Where Are They At With IT?

      • Annemieke Craig, Andrew Stein

      Pages 86-93

   7. ARC

      • M. Klawe, I. Cavers, F. Popowich, G. Chen

      Pages 94-101

5. The Nuts and Bolts of System Design

   1. Information Systems

      • Alison Adam

      Pages 102-110

   2. Constructing Common Sense

      • Catherine Sherron

      Pages 111-118

   3. Masculine World Disguised As Gender Neutral

      • Tarja Kuosa

      Pages 119-126

   4. Doubting the OBJECT World

      • Cecile K. M. Crutzen, Jack F. Gerrissen

      Pages 127-136

   5. Gendered User-Representations

      • Els Rommes

      Pages 137-145

   6. Information System Development Methodologies

      • H. Abimbola Soriyan, Anja Mursu, Mikko Korpela

      Pages 146-154

   7. Will ETs Understand Us If They Make Contact?

      • E. Turner, L. Stepulevage

      Pages 155-163

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.

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• computer
• computer science
• networks
• system development

• Simon Fraser University, Canada

  Ellen Balka, Richard Smith

Ellen Balka is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. Richard Smith is an Assistant Professor of Communication, and Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST), at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

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