Connecting Women
Women, Gender And Ict In Europe In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Century
- Editore:
Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Collana:
- History of Computing
- EAN:
9783319208367
- ISBN:
3319208365
- Pagine:
- 174
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione Connecting Women
This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. Features: describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century; reviews the gendered issues revealed by the conflict between the actress Ms Sylviac and the French telephone administration in 1904, or by ¿feminine¿ blogs; examines how gender representations, age categories, and uses of ICT interact and are mutually formed in children¿s magazines; illuminates the participation of women in the early days of computing, through a case study on the Rothamsted Statistics Department; presents a comparative study of women in computing in France, Finland and the UK, revealing similar gender divisions within the ICT professions of these countries; discusses diversity interventions and the part that history could (and should) play to ensure women do not take second place in specific occupational sectors.
