TY - BOOK ID - 120048397 TI - Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology : Women Doing IT for Themselves PY - 2024 SN - 9819951879 9819951860 PB - Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - Sex. KW - Industrial sociology. KW - Technology KW - Information technology. KW - Science and Technology Studies. KW - Gender Studies. KW - Sociology of Work. KW - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). KW - Science, Technology and Society. KW - Social aspects. KW - Sociological aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:120048397 AB - 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. ER -