[Air-L] Book announcement: Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology: Women Doing IT for Themselves

[Hilde G. Corneliussen]

Dear AoIR members, 

 

I am thrilled to share the news about my new book: Reconstructions of Gender
and Information Technology: Women Doing IT for Themselves, about how women
find their way into tech careers. 

 

This open access book explores what makes women decide to pursue a career in
male-dominated fields such as information technology (IT). It reveals how
women experience gendered stereotypes but also how they bypass, negotiate,
and challenge such stereotypes, reconstructing gender-technology relations
in the process. Using the example of Norway to illuminate this challenge in
Western countries, the book includes a discussion of the "gender equality
paradox", where gender equality exists in parallel with gender segregation
in fields such as IT. The discussion illustrates how the norm of gender
equality in some cases hinders rather than promotes efforts to increase
women's participation in technology-related roles.

 

It is open access and can be downloaded here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5187-1

Here's a discount code if you want a paper version: 2KbHh90AX1PdNT / Valid
Oct 11, 2023 - Nov 8, 2023

 

 

Please join the digital book launch on 23rd of November @ 15.00-16.00 CET if
you are interested in the topic! https://forms.gle/xoP4Y1awptzfLEmy5 

 

Best wishes,

Hilde G. Corneliussen 
Head of Research & Research Professor 

Technology and Society
Western Norway Research Institute / Vestlandsforsking
Pb 163, 6851 Sogndal, Norway

(+47) 47900814 
 <mailto:hgc at vestforsk.no> hgc at vestforsk.no 
 <http://vestforsk.no/> http://vestforsk.no/ 

ORCiD:  <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9661-9638>
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9661-9638

 

Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology - Women Doing IT for
Themselves (Palgrave Macmillan 2023) 

Open Access:  <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5187-1>
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5187-1