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  • New Book on Gender in Technology Work Published

    A new book looking at gender in technology professions has just been published by Palgrave. Performing Gender at Work develops a new understanding gender: that gender is not something one is but rather something one does. This means that we perform gender and are performed by gender. Drawing on detailed academic research in the IT industry, ...
    Posted to Lady Geek (Weblog) by Elisabeth Kelan on 26 Sep 2009
  • Digital Mom

    Marketers seem to have finally come around to see that mothers use the Web 2.0. The insightful report called Digital Mom was produced by Razorfish and CafeMom.   The first part of the report is based on a survey with 1,500 mothers who are users of Web 2.0. The report produced some interesting findings:   1. 65% of mums use ...
    Posted to Lady Geek (Weblog) by Elisabeth Kelan on 08 Feb 2009
  • Female Flight from Computer Science?

    The New York Times reported this week that the number of women studying computer sciences has fallen. 28% of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women in 2001. However by 2004-5 women only gained 22% of the degrees. This number is even lower at elite institutions like the MIT where only 12% of the degrees go to women. And ...
    Posted to Lady Geek (Weblog) by Elisabeth Kelan on 16 Nov 2008
  • The Dream of the Paperless Office

    A couple of years ago I had a debate with a colleague at the UN World Summit on the Information Society about the paperless office. I voiced my frustration that despite of the fact that we now do so much online, we still print so much paper. I wondered if the paperless office would remain a dream. My colleague said that people just have to try it ...
    Posted to Lady Geek (Weblog) by Elisabeth Kelan on 21 Oct 2008
  • Top 50 Women in Mobile Content

    Last week I had the pleasure to be invited by ?What If!, an innovation company, to join a good number of the Top 50 Women in Mobile Content. Jessica Sandin, who heads up mobile at ?What If! was named as one of the top 50 women in mobile content and to celebrate their success ?What If! invited them to the Old Laundry, one of their ...
    Posted to Lady Geek (Weblog) by Elisabeth Kelan on 29 Sep 2008
  • Wireless

    I love taking my iPod to the gym because it gives me the freedom to listen to music that reflects my exercise mood. However when using the iPod on the cross trainer, one of my favourite cardiovascular machines, I often manage to almost strangle myself. I wear my iPod with an armband around my upper arm (the earphone cables are dangling around and ...
    Posted to Lady Geek (Weblog) by Elisabeth Kelan on 21 Sep 2008
  • The Nerdette

    A while ago Newsweek ran an article on a new breed of nerd: the nerdette. The nerdette is a girl nerd. These nerd girls are a growing group of young women who make the term nerd their own. They subvert the negative stereotype of the nerd either by not seeing it as derogative at all or by creating a new, more feminine version of the nerd. ...
    Posted to Lady Geek (Weblog) by Elisabeth Kelan on 31 Aug 2008

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