Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Memi Beltrame Mind the Gap On Gender and Technology Liip techday, july 1 st 2009
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology This talk points out social patterns based on gender, with a special focus on technology
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology What is Gender?
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Is it just another word for sex? Gender: Sex: F M
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Sex Gender
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Sex Gender Biology Society
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Gender is definded by the social patterns of the male/female duality
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology These patterns in general stand for stereotypical roles
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Gender Boundaries are fluid and in constant change, evolving in time, culture or social environment
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Gender operates on three levels: Level 1: Identity
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Level 1: Identity ● How I present myself ● Words I choose & things I say ● Things I wear, clothes, jewels ● How I move and act ● Stuff I like and use
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Gender operates on three levels: Level 1: Identity Level 2: Stuctures & Institutions
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Level 2: Stuctures & Institutions ● Boy Scout/Girl Scout ● Boy/Girl boarding Scools ● Locker Rooms ● Barber/Beauty Parlor
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Gender operates on three levels: Level 1: Identity Level 2: Stuctures & Institutions Level 3: Symbolism & representation
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Level 3: Symbolism & representation ● Images of manhood /womanhood ● Assumptions on what a man/woman likes ● Behaviour that is expected by a man/woman
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology The male/female duality is reflected by other dualities: Female Male Home Work Private Public Soft Hard Pink Blue Extroversion Introversion
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology In the Past 40 years the boundaries between these dualisms have been blurred
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology In the Past 40 years the boundaries between these dualisms have been blurred But the stereotypes are still present today.
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology What has this got to do with technology?
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Glad you ask!
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Technology
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Technology A simple definition: the engineered products and services that surround us
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Ask yourself: Who ● Engineeres ● Designs ● Produces/Manufactures ● Repairs/Maintains ● Uses these products & services?
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Engineers in Germany 2008: Women: 77'986 11.6% Men: 596'280 88.4% Source: Verband Deutsche Ingenieure e.V. (German Engineering Association)
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Architects & Construction engineers Electrical engineers Source: Verband Deutsche Ingenieure e.V. (German Engineering Association)
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Production Electronics assembly line
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Users Internet usage in relation to age and sex Men Women 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+ Age Source: Bundesamt für Statistik (Swiss Federal Buro of Statistics)
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Is there gendered technology?
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology #1 The superfluous hair problem
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology #1 The superfluous hair problem
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology #1 The superfluous hair problem Form follows function Form follows emotions
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology #1 The superfluous hair problem ● Beard trimming for men, with blades ● Full body epilation for women with a wide variety: shaving, waxing, depilatory creams, laser treatment
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology #1 The superfluous hair problem The 1920-40 featured a variety of mostly bizarre techniques: ● Abrasives made from sandpaper ● Aggresive chemical treatments ● Removal by electrolysis where the hair was galvanised and roasted away, predecessor of laser treatment. ● X-Ray Epilation where the hair was removed by radiation
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology #1 The superfluous hair problem „Trimming the bush to make the tree look taller“ Gillette, Groin-Shaving tips Watch this and notice the references to technology! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TiJNewpCnY
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology #2 Home sweet home
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology #2 Home sweet home Gadgets!
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology #2 Home sweet home Gadgets! And a lot of assumptions!
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology General household tools Associated with women
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology But of course: the washing machine is repaired by a man...
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Household tools in a broader sense Associated with men
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Leisure items Associated with men and women
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Programming
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Programming A brief history lesson
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology During World War II the U.S. Army started to use machines to figure out ballistic trajectories and to solve complex mathematical equations of wartime research
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology These Machines filled entire houses and took several people to operate.
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Nearly two hundred mathematically trained women were recruited.
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Nearly two hundred mathematically trained women were recruited They were called „computers“.
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Ironically the machines would take over their name and replace them later in history.
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology So while men engineered the machines women did the programming
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Since the real bottleneck was engineering the machines, the women's work was regarded as subprofessional.
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology These women never received any credit for their innovations and inventions
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Once the bottleneck of engineering had been mastered the new major task had become programming the machine.
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Once the bottleneck of engineering had been mastered the new major task had become programming the machine. That's the point where men took over.
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology Emancipation Closing the gap
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology ● Freedom of choice
Liip Techday 2009 Memi Beltrame: Mind the Gap - On Gender and Technology ● Freedom of choice ● Equality : ● Opportunities (education, jobs) ● Genuine encouragement ● Credits and rewards (salary, Promotions)
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