ERIC Number: ED579372
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jul
Pages: 5
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Breaking the Gendered-Technology Phenomenon in Taiwan's Higher Education
Wang, Ya-Hsuan
International Association for Development of the Information Society, Paper presented at the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on E-Learning (Lisbon, Portugal, Jul 20-22, 2017)
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.]
Descriptors: 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
International Association for the Development of the Information Society. e-mail: secretariat@iadis.org; Web site: http://www.iadisportal.org
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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