Ungendering technology : women retooling the masculine sphere / Carol J. Haddad

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Haddad, Carol Joyce [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)ISBN:

1000021904
1000022366
1000022137
9781000021905
9781000022360
9781000022131
9780429273384

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Additional physical formats: 042927338X | 9780367221287. | 9780367221287 | Erscheint auch als: Ungendering technology. Druck-Ausgabe Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019DDC classification:

331.4/8

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Summary: "This book offers fresh insight into women's mastery of technologies commonly associated with men and the important implications for institutional efforts to attract women and girls to technical courses and careers. The work is structured across five case studies demonstrating how women pushed through gender-based cultural obstacles to master technologies traditionally associated with men. Analysing what attracted each woman to technologies in fields of work with continued female underrepresentation will allows broader engagement with science, technology, engineering and math"--Summary: Built for life : The story of the Avalon Dragon Boat Builders -- Digital megaphone : Egyptian women's cyberactivism in the revolution and beyond -- Sound sisters : Engineering women's music -- Woman in underground Detroit : The non-traditional early occupation of a university graduate -- Reaching for the sky : Women pilots at major commercial airlines -- Toward a women-and-technology paradigm of empowerment.PPN: PPN: 1685642934Package identifier: Produktsigel: BSZ-4-NLEBK-KAUB | ZDB-4-NLEBK

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