Making Women Visible: Gender Spaces and ICT Work in the Philippines

Saloma, Czarina

doi:10.1080/09718524.2002.11910031

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“…In particular, technological advancement in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has enabled women to participate in greater numbers than ever before. ICT-enabled applications in the service sector have resulted in the creation of a new working class comprised mostly of women through the 'feminization' of jobs (Saloma 2002).…”

Section: Technological Innovations and Women Labormentioning

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Plant Tissue Culture Industry and Women’s Participation: ‘Nimble Fingers’ or Docile Labor?

Reddy

2007

Gender, Technology and Development

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Technological advancements have enabled some of the most potent sources of changes in the nature and tasks of workers in general, and of women workers in particular. Application of plant tissue culture technology, a commercially successful biotechnology, has the potential to radically alter social organization of the horticultural plant propagation process. This article examines from a gender perspective the changes brought about in plant tissue culture technology in the organization of production of horticultural plantlets. In an empirical study of the plant tissue culture industry, it was observed that biotechnological interventions have led to greater participation of women in the production process. However, women's tasks were found to be repetitive, routine and tantamount to drudgery. Although preference for woman labor is attributed to 'nimble fingers', the latent motto was found to be to ensure a regular supply of cheap docile labor and to avoid the prospect of unionization.

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Section: Technological Innovations and Women Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

Plant Tissue Culture Industry and Women’s Participation: ‘Nimble Fingers’ or Docile Labor?

Reddy

2007

Gender, Technology and Development

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“…Existing initiatives bring changes [8], [9], [10], [11], even if on a small scale. Molnar et al [10] show that initiatives aiming to promote IT among secondary school students influence women to enroll in IT degrees.…”

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“…All these initiatives are organized with good intentions. They have various aims from making more visible women in the field, mentoring, promoting the field among unrepresented communities, mitigating existing biases, and so on [8], [9], [10], [11]. These initiatives bring both opportunities and challenges [9], [10], [11], and although the opportunities opened by these initiatives are extensively discussed, less attention is given to the latter.…”

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Diversity Initiatives for Women in IT: Friends or Enemies?

Molnar,

Stoilescu

2023

IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag.

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“…Once women are recruited, they are often restricted to entry level roles, or to gendered types of work. For example, within the STEM fields, professions such as engineering have been associated with men while women have been associated with specializations like humancomputer interaction, user design and website design (Saloma, 2002).…”

Section: Workplace Bias and Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data science for empowerment: understanding the data science training landscape for women and girls in Africa

Babirye

Muyoya

Mazumdar

et al. 2022

Gender, Technology and Development

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The increasing datafication of African societies has led to a proliferation of data science-related training opportunities. These trainings provide young people with the opportunity to learn the skills to work on Data science, with some focused specifically on women and girls. While this is encouraging and brings new opportunities for women and girls to participate in the knowledge economy, it is important to understand the wider context of data science training in Africa, in particular, how women and girls experience their (data science) education, and how this knowledge can impact their lives, sustain livelihoods and bring empowerment. Through a review of the literature, as well as an examination of different pedagogical approaches and practices used by various formal and informal training programs in Africa, we examined the experience of women and girls. We conducted a mapping of the training and networks that have been set up to provide knowledge and skills and to empower women in data science. We highlight some of the facilitators that have positively contributed to a greater participation of women and girls in data science education, while also revealing some of the barriers and structural impediments to fair access to training for women in data science.

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Making Women Visible: Gender Spaces and ICT Work in the Philippines

Cited by 3 publications

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Plant Tissue Culture Industry and Women’s Participation: ‘Nimble Fingers’ or Docile Labor?

Plant Tissue Culture Industry and Women’s Participation: ‘Nimble Fingers’ or Docile Labor?

Diversity Initiatives for Women in IT: Friends or Enemies?

Data science for empowerment: understanding the data science training landscape for women and girls in Africa

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