Vortrag: Women, Technology and Time
Wien (pts018/08.01.2003/11:35) "Women, Technology and Time": Prof. Dr. Frances Grundy, Keele University, UK
Datum: 13. Januar 2003
Beginn: 15 Uhr
Ort: Heinz Zemanek Saal der Oesterreichischem Computer Gesellschaft, Wollzeile 1-3, 1010 Wien
Vortragssprache: Englisch
Teilnahme: kostenlos!
Zum Vortag:
For all the speed of change that is taking place, particularly in IT, it does not seem that women's position is improving much - if at all. The figures for female employment in this industry are not encouraging, indeed in the US the percentage is falling. However, two recent surveys from the US suggest that women in hi-tech industries are exhilarated and excited by this work and they are confident in their intellectual capability to keep up with change. But they are also exhausted. The addiction, led by men, to 'faster, smarter, newer' is leading to long hours and is causing many of these women to consider leaving their jobs. They cannot achieve, what they feel is important to them, namely a work/life balance. That is to say they feel they do not have enough time for their families, let alone for wider relationships outside the family. One thing which might help is less emphasis on the 'faster, smarter, newer' and tolerance of older approaches and techniques and a pluralism that places less emphasis on there being only one right way of doing things. On the domestic front, in spite of much rhetoric there has been almost no change in who bears the major part of these responsibilities. One obvious element in the resolution of this is for women to achieve what they have been urging for so long: namely that men take up their rightful share of domestic duties.
Zur Person:
Frances Grundy has worked in computing since the 1960s - in industry, in universities and for a short spell for the British National Health Service. She now teaches computer science at Keele University in the UK. Her main computing interest is in databases. However, her overriding interest is gender and computing and it is from her teaching experiences that she gleans some of the material for her work. She has written a book Women and Computers (1996) and a number of papers on this subject.
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