Computing e Gendering. La costruzione del Genere nel settore informatico

Abstract

The work intends to analyse gender construction in computer science; its object is the study of the information systems culture through the so-called “ingredients” (time and presence, productivity and devotion, technique and neutrality), the myths (the professional-craftsman, the hacker, the maternity) and the metaphors (the mechanic, the dressing room, computer science as carework).
This research, with its narrative approach, intends to contribute to the gender technology debate and to organizational studies; it emphasizes the relation between gendering and computing as cultural and organizational practices.