Breaking the Gendered-Technology Phenomenon in Taiwan's Higher Education

Autor/in	Wang, Ya-Hsuan
Titel	Breaking the Gendered-Technology Phenomenon in Taiwan's Higher Education
Quelle	(2017), (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Educational Policy; Discourse Analysis; Qualitative Research; Femininity; Masculinity; Information Technology; Individual Characteristics; Family Relationship; Role Models; Social Support Groups; Age Differences; Majors (Students); Student Attitudes; Career Choice; College Students; Single Sex Colleges; Sex Role; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Diskursanalyse; Qualitative Forschung; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Männlichkeit; Informationstechnologie; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Identifikationsfigur; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Schülerverhalten; Collegestudent; Geschlechterrolle
Abstract	Addressing the policy of gender mainstreaming in response to the gendered-technology phenomenon, this study aims to explore the contemporary change of the gender-technology relation. Drawing the female discourses on technology, gender, and success, this study collected qualitative data by individual interviews from 28 women in technology who were asked about their experiences of doing technology, doing gender and performing femininity or/and masculinity. This paper demonstrates women success in relation to their gender identity and gender-technology discourse of gendered technology. Based on the cross-generation females' accounts on their context of family, schools and society, this paper explores how female technologists constitute their gender role and how they articulate the formation of gendered technology phenomenon. It concludes a vase-breaking theory that elite female technologists can break gender boundary by individual characteristics, masculinity, family support, school empowerment from female role-model and single-gendered school, and social support from university. Although mostly the female co-constructed and deconstructed simultaneously the gendered technology, there is seen changing culture among three generations that younger generation get more advantages on gender mobility by breaking gender boundary. There is also a phenomenon of elite female develops technology well by appropriating all sorts of resources and eventually gender mobility is achieved with the help from men and women so that they have broken the strict boundary of gendered technology. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.] (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Association for the Development of the Information Society. e-mail: secretariat@iadis.org; Web site: http://www.iadisportal.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01