From Women to Gender and Diversity. Working Group 9.8

Sisse Finken, Christina Mörtberg

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Abstract

In this chapter, we look carefully into the genealogy and formation of WG 9.8: Gender, Diversity, and ICT. In our inquiry, we have looked into pro-ceedings available online and via university libraries, read yearly reports from the working group, and reached out to prior participants who have played a part in forming and consolidating the working group by way of or-ganizing the Work and Computerization (WWC) conference. The WG 9.8 has, since its early formation in the beginning of the 1980s, been concerned about women’s experiences and conditions in relation to an automated and digitalized working life. This focus has prevailed in the lifespan of the working group and has been accompanied by other foci, such as gender and power relations. Thus, in unfolding the history of the working group, we come across technological phenomena and theoretical concepts that are still in use and/or are revived. We will, for example, meet the timely concept ‘invisible work’ and we will meet former conversations about the technol-ogy ‘Artificial Intelligence’. With such reading of the history of WG 9.8 we will encounter a history where technology is deeply intertwined with the social, the cultural, and the political
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCurrent Directions in ICT and Society : IFIP TC9 50th Anniversary Anthology
EditorsChristopher Leslie, David Kreps
Number of pages9
Volumevolume 700
PublisherSpringer, Cham
Publication date27 Jan 2024
Edition1
Pages108-116
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-50757-1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-50758-8
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jan 2024
Series IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
VolumeIFIPAICT, volume 700
ISSN1868-4238

Keywords

  • Gender Diversity
  • Gender
  • Feminism
  • Women in Computing
  • Diversity

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