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Much feminist work on women and computing has identified the difficulties women experience in gaining entry into and acceptance in this important and developing field. Socially constructed relations of education, training and workforce participation tend to perpetuate systems of disadvantage. Yet as the social relations of particular societies differ so the experience of women in different societies can reveal fissures in an apparently seamless terrain of reproduction. This study compares experience in Australia, Finland and Sweden and finds that there are possibilities which can be gleaned from cross-cultural research for women to break with patterns of gender segregation in computing work.
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Mackinnon, A., Blomqvist, M. & Vehvilainen, M. Gendering computer work: An international perspective. AI & Soc 7, 280–294 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01891412
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