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  • Essay / Technology and Gender Roles - 1001

    Technology is socially and culturally constructed as a masculine practice practiced in masculine institutions. This has led to a dominant value system of underlying technology creation and decision-making processes that is seen as fundamentally masculine. Indeed, by the end of the 19th century, mechanical and civil engineering came to increasingly define what technology was, which essentially involved creation. of a masculine professional identity, based on diplomas and the promise of management positions, clearly distinguished from workshop engineers and workers. Take engineering for example: an archetypal masculine culture, where mastery of technology is a source of both pleasure and enjoyment. power for a male-dominated profession. These images resonate with MIT student hackers. Although they would deny that their culture is macho, the preoccupation with winning and subjecting themselves to increasingly violent tests makes their world masculine and hostile to women. However, this does not mean that all women reject "geek culture", nor that computer science is universally recognized. coded as masculine. In Malaysia, women are well represented among computer science students. Women working in ICT sectors still hold one to five positions in information technology occupations, electronic communications and management positions. As a result, women are largely excluded from the engineering design process that shapes the world we live in. “Ecofeminism” – masculine values ​​of progress, rationality, productivity and competition. In Ecofeminism (1993), the authors Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies Critique and Evan Bond, view the mainstream of modern science as a projection of the values ​​of Western men. The privilege of determining what is considered scientific...... middle of article ...... special circumstances. This perspective has redefined the problem of exclusion of groups of people from technological fields and activities. Technofeminism exposes how concrete design and innovation practices lead to the absence of specific users, such as women. Objects and artifacts are no longer seen as separate from society but as part of the social fabric that holds society together; they are never simply social or technical. Yet the marginalization of women from the technology community has a profound influence on the design, technical content and use of objects. Technology is both a source and a consequence of gender relations. In other words, gender relations can be seen as materialized in technology, and masculinity and femininity in turn acquire their meaning and character through their inscription and integration into working machines...