Women, Work and Computerization Spinning a Web from Past to Future

This volume considers the submissions to the 6th International IFIP-TC 9/WG 9.1 Conference on Women, Work and Computerization WWC 97. The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and users in the field of information technology. In this book the authors discuss how different areas of society are being transformed by computer technology, but with particular emphasis on changes in women's work and life and how these have come about. Such transformations include the transitions from women's traditional work to work based on modern technology; from communicating within personal communities to communicating within virtual communities; from traditional job gendering to new perspectives on "who does what".

Contents: Introduction.- Welcome Addresses.- Invited Talks: Welcome Address.- Feminist Perspectives on Democratization.- New Professors - Old Structures.- Along the Estuary.- Remembering the Future: Language, Webs, and the Power of the Invisible.- Social and Cultural Challenges of the Information Society Politics of the European Union.- Saving Our Children? The Promise of the Internet and the Perils of Censorship.- Information Society, Multimedia and Networking: Internet, Communication, and Gender.- Exploring the Internet.- Creating Models and Tools.- Panel "Not without a Body? Bodily Functions in Cyberspace".- Labour and Living: Apart or Together?: Local and Global Division of Labour: on the Way to Equality?- (Dis)Location of Workplaces?- Engendering by Organizational Development?- Technological Innovations and Gendered Experiences.- Education: From School to Informatics: Inclusion or Exclusion?- Quality of Education with IT.- History - Herstory.- Posters.- Tutorials.- Software-Demonstrations.- Information on IFIP, GI, and GMD.