scholarly journals “I really didn’t have any problems with the male-female thing until …”: Successful Women’s Experiences in IT Organizations

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin I Demaiter ◽  
Tracey L. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Women's Careers ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women’S Careers ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
It Organizations ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities ◽  
Workplace Cultures

The gendered nature of organizations limits women’s opportunities for advancement. While women have made inroads into many male-dominated jobs, studies suggest they can be marginalized within masculine workplace cultures. In this paper, we examine the experiences of eleven women who have had successful careers in the male-dominated information technology field, to explore their perceptions of the barriers and opportunities women face. We find that our respondents have a tendency to downplay the significance of gender, even as they provide evidence that gender has shaped their careers. We argue that their reluctance to see how gender conditions women’s careers, combined with the technical nature of their field, may have facilitated their success, even though these factors serve as barriers for other women, and prevent meaningful change.

scholarly journals Navigating the gender structure in information technology: How does this affect the experiences and behaviours of women?

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etlyn J Kenny ◽  
Rory Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Women's Careers ◽  
Women’S Careers ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

How do women, outnumbered and outranked, navigate work and careers in information technology? Only one in six information technology (IT) specialists in the UK is female. Such extreme male dominance potentially gives rise to a gender structure that affects women’s experiences of IT work. Using data from interviews with 57 technically skilled female IT professionals, we examine how women orient this gender structure and how they make sense of their gender identities as women working in IT. Our findings elucidate how the IT gender structure shapes women’s careers in this field of work. They reveal how women use their agency to assert notions of femininity into technical careers, disentangle narratives around whether women have unique and different (but less technically focused) strengths in IT and interface with ‘geek’ and ‘nerd’ identities to achieve successful IT careers. In doing so, they provide insight into how technical women continue careers within a structure that externalises them through gender norms. This understanding can be used to aid efforts to retain women within IT as well as other fields facing similar challenges.

Career Promoters

2013 ◽  
pp. 216-238
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Women's Careers ◽  
Gender Divide ◽  
Women’S Careers ◽  
Male Dominated

This chapter aims to: discuss the complexities involved in mentoring and networking for women; identify how mentoring and networking can be advantageous in supporting women’s careers and aid women in terms of career development and progression; and illustrate how women may be disadvantaged in the workplace, due to a gender divide in terms of access to mentors, female role models, and appropriate networking opportunities. These issues are especially issues for women working in male dominated occupations and industries.

scholarly journals Terror, Counter-Terror

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Author(s):  
Erica Neegan
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women's Organizations ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
War Power ◽  
Women’S Organizations

Terror, Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out presents articles by severalwomen writers and women’s organizations. The book analyzes and interrogatesthe madness of male-dominated war and violence, and presentswomen’s perspectives on war and the 9/11 tragedy. Contributors includefeminist writers, authors, academics, and journalists; mothers, women ofcolor, Muslim women; and women who have had first-hand experiencewith war and its effects. The editors provide an excellent critical reappraisal of the ideas, concepts,and language that underpin the multilayered world of war, power, andpeace. The book also explores diverse women’s perspectives on the failure ofwar to bring about peace. In giving their perspective, the authors respond eloquentlyand defiantly to war’s destructive nature. This collection, a wonderfulanthology of women’s experiences of war, allows the reader to capture thesuffering of war as well as its paradoxes, double standards, and contradictions.The essays are organized into seven sections: “Personal and Political,”“The War on Terror,” “Saying No,” “Motherland/ Fatherland,” “The War onWomen,” “Displaced and Dispossessed,” and “Women against War.”The book highlights the wars in Afghanistan and Israel and the 9/11tragedy. The authors lament that war has never really brought peace, butrather turmoil and human and economic suffering. Most people in theWest see sanitized images of war that are carefully selected for them.Women Speak Out tells the story of how loosing one’s children, home, andlivelihood are part of war’s true horrors ...

Booming Bandas of Los Ángeles

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xóchitl C. Chávez
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Women Musicians ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Brass Bands ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
And Training

The author's work with Oaxacan communities has drawn attention to Zapotec women musicians within this traditionally male-dominated musical practice. Although women have become more visible in brass bands, they are usually not revered as equal members of the band, even in cases where women have formal education and training. Taking seriously Sherrie Tucker's call for “engaged listening” of women musicians, this chapter focuses on Zapotec migrant women's experiences as musicians to address the formation of brass bands and the ways they negotiate the challenges they encounter in brass bands. It is through their localized articulations, voiced or played, that women establish a dialogue across the region of Oaxacalifornia.

scholarly journals Pass the mic: women finding space on air

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beckstead Lori
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Radio Industry

This is a compilation of interview with various women who work or have worked in the radio industry primarily in Toronto, Canada. The interviews were conducted as part of a research project which seeks to collect information about women's experiences of an d perceptions about working in radio - an industry which, like all media industries, has traditionally been male dominated.

Flying Mystics, or the Exceptional Woman, Part I

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serinity Young
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Demonic Possession ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The Demonic

This chapter enters the realm of medieval Christian mystical women, who were purported to have levitated, moved through the air, or flown, and then explores their reception by a suspicious, male-dominated Church. To understand the intensely devotional beliefs of these women, and the social status of religious women, requires exploring the different perceptions of female and male mystics and their different mystical experiences. A major problem with female Christian mystics was that women were generally considered to be more susceptible to demonic possession than men, and peoples possessed by the demonic (such as witches) were believed to fly; therefore women’s experiences of flight were called into question.

scholarly journals Pass the mic: women finding space on air

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beckstead Lori
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Radio Industry

This is a compilation of interview with various women who work or have worked in the radio industry primarily in Toronto, Canada. The interviews were conducted as part of a research project which seeks to collect information about women's experiences of an d perceptions about working in radio - an industry which, like all media industries, has traditionally been male dominated.

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