Book contents
- Gender and Technology at Work
- Gender and Technology at Work
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 0 Introduction
- Part I Gender and Technology
- Part II Gender and Technology at the Workplace
- Part III Gender and Design
- 10 Revisiting the Ethical-Political Perspective in Technology Design
- 11 Contextualizing Women’s Work
- 12 Pathways to Gender Equality in Design
- Postscript
- References
- Index
10 - Revisiting the Ethical-Political Perspective in Technology Design
from Part III - Gender and Design
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2024
- Gender and Technology at Work
- Gender and Technology at Work
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 0 Introduction
- Part I Gender and Technology
- Part II Gender and Technology at the Workplace
- Part III Gender and Design
- 10 Revisiting the Ethical-Political Perspective in Technology Design
- 11 Contextualizing Women’s Work
- 12 Pathways to Gender Equality in Design
- Postscript
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter revisits the ethical-political perspective on technology design. Feminist/intersectional approaches to the design of IT artifacts build on practices developed in participatory design and action research, enriching them with norm-critical, norm-creative, and social justice-oriented perspectives. Practice-based design adds experiences with designing flexible, malleable systems that are open to end-user development, offering technological tools for designing systems that are open to other ways of thinking and doing (work). Decolonizing approaches contribute to doing justice to parts of the world that experience(d) oppression and marginalization, discarding the needs of people and disrespecting their knowledge. Among the specific challenges of a feminist/intersectional approach to design are the need to make invisible aspects of work visible; to recognize women’s skills without falling into the trap of gender stereotyping; to engage in improving working conditions; to defend care against a managerial logic, take care of the many overlooked and undervalued aspects of work in design, but also to care for research subjects and create safe spaces.
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- Gender and Technology at WorkFrom Workplace Studies to Social Justice in Design, pp. 257 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024