Diferentes, desiguales y desconectadas. ¿Quién es quién en las industrias tecnológicas?
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this article aims to focus on what is the place of women in technological industries. We know
that the hardcore issue of gender equity continues being economic, involving a sex / gender
system that sustains the relation of productive and reproductive areas. In spite of the fact that
labour changes have favoured the possibilities of employment for women, the digital and
class gap are everywhere. Not only is it evident in the access to technology but also, in the
capacity to use it and, especially, to produce it. Only a very reduced sector of women achieve
IT skills, they are connected; since 1997 the presence of women has even been diminishing in
all audio-visual industries and in technologies of information and communications.
The consequences are ill-fated: there are fewer women behind the camera or creating
hardware and software, there are fewer feminine protagonists, there is less concern for the
life of women. If women are not present, not even as producers, directors, nor as executives
of these industries, an immediate effect takes place in the treatment (or absence) of topics
and approaches concerning woman, therefore reconstructing and reinforcing gender
stereotypes.
Nevertheless, technologies of information and communications have allowed for the
birth of an autonomous, indigenous feminist activism, … in the networks and outside them;
some examples can be in this article. Demonstrating that these technologies can become
tools of resistance, transformative, participatory and democratic, undermining old social
relations and providing a tool for political action. Today it has become absolutely necessary
for women to make technologies their own, not only to give them a voice but, especially,
to make them visible beyond normative or hierarchical generic constructs. Emergent
subjectivities are in need of other models, new models. Today we are living in a period of
all kinds of crisis that favour reviewing visual and technological practices, and that reflects
again on the role that representation fulfils in the construction of what is real.
that the hardcore issue of gender equity continues being economic, involving a sex / gender
system that sustains the relation of productive and reproductive areas. In spite of the fact that
labour changes have favoured the possibilities of employment for women, the digital and
class gap are everywhere. Not only is it evident in the access to technology but also, in the
capacity to use it and, especially, to produce it. Only a very reduced sector of women achieve
IT skills, they are connected; since 1997 the presence of women has even been diminishing in
all audio-visual industries and in technologies of information and communications.
The consequences are ill-fated: there are fewer women behind the camera or creating
hardware and software, there are fewer feminine protagonists, there is less concern for the
life of women. If women are not present, not even as producers, directors, nor as executives
of these industries, an immediate effect takes place in the treatment (or absence) of topics
and approaches concerning woman, therefore reconstructing and reinforcing gender
stereotypes.
Nevertheless, technologies of information and communications have allowed for the
birth of an autonomous, indigenous feminist activism, … in the networks and outside them;
some examples can be in this article. Demonstrating that these technologies can become
tools of resistance, transformative, participatory and democratic, undermining old social
relations and providing a tool for political action. Today it has become absolutely necessary
for women to make technologies their own, not only to give them a voice but, especially,
to make them visible beyond normative or hierarchical generic constructs. Emergent
subjectivities are in need of other models, new models. Today we are living in a period of
all kinds of crisis that favour reviewing visual and technological practices, and that reflects
again on the role that representation fulfils in the construction of what is real.
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Navarrete Tudela, Ana. “Diferentes, desiguales y desconectadas. ¿Quién es quién en las industrias tecnológicas?”. Asparkía: investigació feminista, no. 22, p. 17, https://raco.cat/index.php/Asparkia/article/view/257285.