Research Catalog

Title

Doing IT : women working in information technology / by Krista Scott-Dixon.

Author

Scott-Dixon, Krista, 1973-

Publication

Toronto : Sumach Press, 2004.

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Description

241 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"From the boom of the 1990s to the bust of early 2000, women have been carving out careers in information technology. For these IT workers, it is not just about earning a living but about applying their technological, scientific and engineering skills and knowledge. Doing IT demonstrates that women fill a wide variety of these technological occupations, yet continue to face barriers preventing them from reaching their full professional potential. Scott-Dixon examines the IT environment's traditional workplace that keeps gender, race, class, ability and pay inequities firmly in place. Drawing on personal interviews, she shows that despite these barriers, women in IT bring passion to their jobs and draw on their wit, intelligence and creative resourcefulness to shape their career paths. Doing IT is an invigorating conversation among women in search of greater employment opportunities."--Amazon.ca.

Series Statement

Women's issues publishing program

Uniform Title

Women's issues publishing program.

Subject

• Women computer industry employees
• Information technology
• Women > Employment
• Informatique > Personnel féminin
• Technologie de l'information
• Femmes > Travail

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1894549376 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005363769

OCLC

56065981

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library