Gender Issues in Information and Communication Technologies
Andrew Jackson
COMM210 I001
American Military University
Professor Wesley Wasmundt
Gender Issues in Information and Communication Technologies
Gender inequality is a huge concern in our world today especially the computer science industry. Girls Who Code (GWC), an organization created to mobilized leaders across sectors to invest in a real and tangible solution to this problem, projects at least 1 million girls will study computer science by 2020 (Makers, 2015). According to Makers (2015) by 2018, there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs in the U.S. and, at the current rate of students graduating with degrees in computer science, only 29% …show more content…
First, the development of AC began when researchers perceived the potential of emotions, which were usually avoided in the innovation of IT and ICTs. AC can also play the role of a facilitator in case of complications with traditional channels of communication, such as speech or writing. Gender perspective is not taken into account in the significant body of literature on AC and gender does not appear as a variable in the majority of experiments on human-computer and human-human interaction (Oleksy et al., …show more content…
However, there must be an awareness that women 's geo-political locations, cultural settings, various factors of socio-cultural identification such as race, ethnicity, class, age, disability, religion, and different structures of subjectivities do have significant implications for women 's participation in the creation and consumption of ICT products. Although the article surfaces dialogue that leads us in the right direction to addressing gendered imbalances, it does not include all genders. Why does the experiment or authors include transgender, multi-gendered, transsexed, and intersexed people? This would address males and females affiliated with non-traditional genders (Wood,
Andrew Jackson
COMM210 I001
American Military University
Professor Wesley Wasmundt
Gender Issues in Information and Communication Technologies
Gender inequality is a huge concern in our world today especially the computer science industry. Girls Who Code (GWC), an organization created to mobilized leaders across sectors to invest in a real and tangible solution to this problem, projects at least 1 million girls will study computer science by 2020 (Makers, 2015). According to Makers (2015) by 2018, there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs in the U.S. and, at the current rate of students graduating with degrees in computer science, only 29% …show more content…
First, the development of AC began when researchers perceived the potential of emotions, which were usually avoided in the innovation of IT and ICTs. AC can also play the role of a facilitator in case of complications with traditional channels of communication, such as speech or writing. Gender perspective is not taken into account in the significant body of literature on AC and gender does not appear as a variable in the majority of experiments on human-computer and human-human interaction (Oleksy et al., …show more content…
However, there must be an awareness that women 's geo-political locations, cultural settings, various factors of socio-cultural identification such as race, ethnicity, class, age, disability, religion, and different structures of subjectivities do have significant implications for women 's participation in the creation and consumption of ICT products. Although the article surfaces dialogue that leads us in the right direction to addressing gendered imbalances, it does not include all genders. Why does the experiment or authors include transgender, multi-gendered, transsexed, and intersexed people? This would address males and females affiliated with non-traditional genders (Wood,