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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Gendered Futures? Women, the ICT Workplace and Stories of the Future.
AU - Moore, Karenza
AU - Griffiths, Marie
AU - Richardson, Helen
AU - Adams, Alison
PY - 2008/9
Y1 - 2008/9
N2 - This article investigates stories of the future in relation to women in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector through the development of a theoretical and methodological stance towards the future. Given concerns about the future of the ICT sector in terms of skills shortages and gender imbalances, an understanding of how female ICT professionals view this future is vital. Using data gathered from female ICT professionals in the UK, we look specifically at gendered stories about the future in relation to hybrid/bridger ICT workers, the practices of offshoring/global locating ICT work and the under-representation of women in ICT. Such stories of the future are part of wider discourses on gender relations in late modern society, and so their examination becomes a conduit for problematizing contemporary discourse about gender, work, time and technology.
AB - This article investigates stories of the future in relation to women in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector through the development of a theoretical and methodological stance towards the future. Given concerns about the future of the ICT sector in terms of skills shortages and gender imbalances, an understanding of how female ICT professionals view this future is vital. Using data gathered from female ICT professionals in the UK, we look specifically at gendered stories about the future in relation to hybrid/bridger ICT workers, the practices of offshoring/global locating ICT work and the under-representation of women in ICT. Such stories of the future are part of wider discourses on gender relations in late modern society, and so their examination becomes a conduit for problematizing contemporary discourse about gender, work, time and technology.
KW - gender
KW - stories
KW - discourses
KW - the future
KW - information communication technologies
U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2008.00416.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2008.00416.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 523
EP - 542
JO - Gender, Work and Organisation
JF - Gender, Work and Organisation
SN - 0968-6673
IS - 5
ER -