Gender and Power in Technological Contexts

This chapter explores the various ways in which we can conceive of gender and power in relation to technology. How do gender and power connect in technological contexts? What does power look like here, how is it shaped and allocated, and who possesses it? What possibilities may exist with regard to reshaping power through acts of resistance in and through technology? To examine these questions, this chapter attends to considerations of gender, power, and technology in relation to labor, focusing specifically on the domains of technology education and work, and activism in technological contexts. The chapter begins by firstly considering feminist approaches to gender and power via technology studies. Secondly, the chapter moves to examine the interplay of gender and power in relation to technology education and work. Finally, the chapter explores some of the possibilities and pitfalls new technologies may offer to feminist activists as both a tool and space of resistance and protest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41531-9_28