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Reference Resources

Collective Resources

• Global Gender Gaps, Nicole Speulda and Mary McIntosh, Pew Global Attitudes Project
• WomenWatch, UN
• Gender and Development, World Bank
• Center for Children and Technology

Bibliographical Resources

• Bibliography on Gender and Technology in Education, compiled and annotated by Jo Sanders, 2005
• Bibliography, Gender and Information Technology, Alliance for Technology Learning and Society, 2002
• Bibliography on gender and agricultural engineering for small farms in developing countries, Joke Muylwijk, AGSE Occasional Paper, Department of Gender Studies in Agriculture, Wageningen Agricultural University and the Agricultural Engineering Service, FAO, March 1996
• The History of Household Technology, Constance Carter, Journeys and Crossings, Library of Congress

Biographical Resources

• The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science, by Elga Wasserman, Joseph Henry Press, 2000
• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• Women of NASA, NASA
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians, an on-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia
• Women in Math Project, Marie Vitulli, University of Oregon
• Women of Computing - Past and Present, part of The Ada Project

Electronic Texts

• Social and Gender Analysis in Natural Resource Management: Learning Studies and Lessons from Asia, edited by Ronnie Vernooy, Sage India/CAP/IDRC, 2006
• Series on Gender and Employment: Identification of Economic Opportunities for Women's Groups and Communities, ILO
• Gender, Land, and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through Farmers' Eyes, Ritu Verma, IDRC, 2001
• Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, Rob Kling, 2nd ed., San Diego: Academic Press, February 1996
• Missing Links: Gender Equity in Science and Technology for Development, Gender Working Group of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development, IDRC/ITDG Publishing/UNIFEM, 1995
• Technology Policy and Practice in Africa, edited by Osita M. Ogbu, Banji O. Oyeyinka, and Hasa M. Mlawa, IDRC, 1995
• Exploring Gender through Archaeology, edited by Cheryl Claassen, Monographs in World Archaeology, no 11, 1992

Organizations and Associations

• ACM's Committee on Women in Computing
• American Association of University Women
• Association for Women in Science
• Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, National Academies
• Gender And Science And Technology (GASAT) Association
• Society of Women Engineers

Statistics

• Gender Sensitive Indicators for Economic Growth / Trade Related Activities, USAID
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Trends and the Role of Federal Programs, GAO, May 2006

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Computer Culture and Use

• See also: Identity and the Internet
• Gender Grouping: Effects on Technology Attitudes, Perceptions, and Uses, Connie Bain and Margaret L. Rice, paper presented at the annual National Educational Computing Conference, June 24-27, 2007, Atlanta, GA
• Women2000 and Beyond: Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women through ICT, United Nations, September 2005
• A gender perspective on Internet use: consequences for information seeking, AnnBritt Enochsson, Information Research, Vol. 10 No. 4, July 2005
• How Adolescent Boys and Girls View Today’s Computer Culture, Alice A. Christie, NECC 2004
• Gender and Internet Usage, Ruby Roy Dholakia, Nikhilesh Dholakia, and Nir Kshetri, prepared for The Internet Encyclopedia, edited by Hossein Bidgoli, New York: Wiley, 2003 (forthcoming), February 2003
• Gender, Information Technology and Developing Countries: An Analytic Study, Nancy Hafkin and Nancy Taggart, USAID's Office of Women in Development, June 2001
• Telecommunications: Characteristics and Choices of Internet Users, GAO Report to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, GAO-01-345, February 2001
• Java, Women and the Culture of Computing, Danielle R. Bernstein, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, July 1999, Dunedin, New Zealand, 21-28.
• A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, Donna Haraway, in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181

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Domestic Technologies

• Housewifery, Gender and the Domestication of Technology: Working Bibliography Ashwani Vasishth, 2005
• The History of Household Technology, Constance Carter, Journeys and Crossings, Library of Congress
• Women's Travel Issues, Federal Highway Administration, Second National Conference, Baltimore, October 1996
• Gender and the Automobile in the United States, Margaret Walsh, Automobile in American Life and Society
• Femininity and the Electric Car, Virginia Scharff, Automobile in American Life and Society
• Appliances and their Impact: The Ownership of Domestic Technology and Time Spent on Household Work, Michael Bittman, James Mahmud Rice, and Judy Wajcman, SPRC Discussion Paper No. 129, October 2003
• Home, Home on the Remote: Why Do Men Control "the Clicker"?, edited by Elizabeth Thoman, Center for Media Literacy

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Employment / Occupation

Collective Resources

• Trade, Technology and Gender Wage Gap: A Case of Japan, Yumiko Yamamoto, Policy Innovations, Fall 2007
• Renewable Energy Technology: A Gender Perspective in Indonesia, Yogyakarta January 25th – 26th, 2005
• Women encounter technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World, edited by Swasti Mitter and Sheila Rowbotham, Routledge, 1995

Agriculture

• Bibliography on gender and agricultural engineering for small farms in developing countries, Joke Muylwijk, Department of Gender Studies in Agriculture, Wageningen Agricultural University and, FAO, March 1996
• Gender aspects of smallholder irrigation technology: Insights from Nepal, B. Upadhyay, First published in: Journal of Applied Irrigation Science, Vol. 39. No 2/2004
• Gender in Agriculture and Agro-Processing in Lebanon, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, UN, October 2001
• Gender issues in animal traction and rural transport in Uganda, F. B. Lubwama, Empowering Farmers with Animal Traction in the 21st Century (South Africa, 1999)

Media

• Women professionals in the media in the context of new technological developments, STOA Publications, European Parliament, PE 168.380/Fin.St., 2000

Office Work

• Telework: a new mode of gendered segmentation: Results from a study in Canada, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Note 2003-5, Université du Québec
• Gender on the Line: Technology, Restructuring and the Reorganization of Work in the Call Centre Industry, Ruth Buchanan and Sarah Koch-Schulte, Status of Women, Canada, September 2000
• Cpmputerization at Work, chapter 4 in Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, Rob Kling, 2nd ed., San Diego: Academic Press, February 1996
• Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment, Volume II: Case Studies and Policy Perspectives, Panel on Technology and Women's Employment, Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues, National Research Council, 1987

Science and Technology

• Women in Global Science and Technology
• Women in Industrial Research, European Commission
• Documents, Women and Science, European Commission, CORDIS
• Women and Science, RTD Beyond 2000: Science and Society, CORDIS
• Closing the Digital Divide, PAT-15, UK Department of Trade and Industry
• Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion, Economics and Statistics Administration, US Department of Commerce, October 2000
• Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, National Research Council
• Database of Women Engineering Faculty, Committee of Women in Science and Engineering
• Women, Minorities, and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation
• Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Iowa State University Library
• Women in the Weather Bureau during World War II, edited by Kaye O'Brien and Gary K. Grice, National Weather Service

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Identity and the Internet

Collective Resources

• See also: Computer Culture and Use
• Gentech, University of British Columbia
• Center for Women and Information Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Gender and the Information Highway, University of Toronto
• CyberPsychology at Nottingham Trent University
• Empowering Women Through the Internet; Dutch Women Unite, by Karen Drost and Miriam Jorna, First Monday, vol 5, no 10, October 2000
• Breaking out of Binaries: Reconceptualizing Gender and its Relationship to Language in Computer-Mediated Communication, Michelle Rodino, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, vol 3, no 3, December 1997
• On-Line Smiles: Does Gender Make a Difference in the Use of Graphic Accents?, Diane F. Witmer and Sandra Lee Katzman, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, vol 2, no 4, March, 1997
• Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community, Judith S. Donath, prepared for: Kollock, P. and Smith M. (eds). Communities in Cyberspace, London: Routledge [1996]
• Women and Gender Online, special issue, Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, vol 3, no 3, March 1, 1996

Personal Web Pages

• Self in Web Home Pages: Gender, Identity and Power in Cyberspace, Hugh Miller, Jill Arnold, chapter 5 in Towards Cyberpsychology: Mind, Cognitions and Society in the Internet Age, Giuseppi Riva and Carlo Galimberti (eds), Amsterdam, IOS Press, 2001
• Gender and Web Home Pages, Jill Arnold and Hugh Miller, presented as a poster at: CAL99 Virtuality in Education, The Institute of Education, London 28-31 March 1999

Social Networks, Blogs ...

• Teens and Online Stranger Contact, Pew Internet and American Life Project, October 2007
• Whose space? Differences among users and non-users of social network sites, E. Hargittai, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 14, 2007
• Gender differences in British blogging, S. Pedersen and C. Macafee, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4), article 16, 2007
• Gender, identity, and language use in teenage blogs, David A. Huffaker and Sandra L. Calvert, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2), article 1, 2005
• Gender Language Style and Group Composition in Internet Discussion Groups, Victor Savicki, Dawn Lingenfelter, and Merle Kelley, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, vol 2, no 3, December, 1996

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Learning and Teaching

• Exploring Gender and Technology in Learning Environments, Harvard
• Blue School, Pink School: Gender Imbalance in New York City CTE High Schools, Betsy Gotbaum, Office of the New York City Public Advocate, January 2008
• Adoption of Educational Technology: How Does Gender Matter?, George Zhou and Judy Xu, International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Volume 19, Number 2, 2007
• Bibliography on Gender and Technology in Education, compiled and annotated by Jo Sanders, 2005
• Gender and Technology in Education: A Research Review, Jo Sanders, June 2005
• Gender and Technology in the Liberal Arts: Aptitudes, Attitudes, and Skills Acquisition, Terry Butler, Peter Ryan, and Tracy Chao, Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 4, 2005
• Do Gender and Learning Style Play a Role in How Online Courses Should Be Designed?, Diana Garland and Barbara N. Martin, Journal of Interactive Online Learning, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2005
• Women's Studies Section, Teaching with Technology Today, Volume 10, Number 5, April 2004
• Gender Issues in Technology Education: A Quasi-Ethnographic Interview Approach, W. J. Haynie, Journal of Technology Education Vol. 15 No. 1, Fall 2003
• A Gendered World: Students and Instructional Technologies by Indhu Rajagopal with Nis Bojin, First Monday, volume 8, number 1 (January 2003)
• Gender Differences in Computer Technology Achievement, Kimberly V. Hale, Meridian, Summer 2002
• Virtual Harassment: Women and Online Education, by Julia K. Ferganchick-Neufang, First Monday, vol. 3, no.2, February 2, 1998
• Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms: A Guide for Faculty, New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education, Brown University, 1996

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