Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future: IFIP TC9 WG9.1 Seventh International Conference on Women, Work and Computerization June 8-11, 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Edited by Ellen Balka & Richard Smith

ISBN 10: 0792378644 / ISBN 13: 9780792378648

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, 2000

About this Item

Hardback. x+307 pages. NO LIBRARY STAMPS BUT THERE ARE A FEW SIGNS THAT IT IS EX-LIBRARY. Neat pencil inscription on the front paste down could be erased. Clean & tight book. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F-LnN. Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future: IFIP TC9 WG9.1 Seventh International Conference on Women, Work and Computerization June 8-11, 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Edited by Ellen Balka & Richard Smith. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Seller Inventory # 029670

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future: IFIP TC9 WG9.1 Seventh International Conference on Women, Work and Computerization June 8-11, 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792378644
• ISBN 13: 9780792378648
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

ELLENBALKA Simon Fraser University ebalka@Sfu. ca 1. INTRODUCTION In developing the call for papers for the 7th International Federation of Information Processors (IFIP) Women, Work and Computerization Conference, we sought to cast our net widely. We wanted to encourage presenters to think broadly about women, work and computerization. Towards this end, the programme committee developed a call for papers that, in its final form, requested paper submissions around four related themes. These are (1) Setting the Course: Taking Stock of Where We Are and Where We're Going; (2) Charting Undiscovered Terrain: Creating Models, Tools and Theories; (3) Navigating the Unknown: Sex, Time, Space and Place, and (4) Taking the Helm: Education and Pedagogy. Our overall conference theme, 'Charting a Course to the Future' was inspired in part by Vancouver's geography, which is both coastal and mountainous. As such, navigation plays an important part in the lives of many as we seek to enjoy our environs. In addition, as the first Women, Work and Computerization conference of the new millennium, we hoped to encourage the broad community of scholars that has made past Women, Work and Computerization conferences a success to actively engage in imagining--and working towards-- a better future for women in relation to computers. The contributions to this volume are both a reflection of the hard work undertaken by many to improve the situation of women in relation to computerization, and a testament to how much work is yet to be done.

About the Author

Ellen Balka is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. Richard Smith is an Assistant Professor of Communication, and Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST), at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.