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Aims:
- To identify the ways information technology constrains and contributes to women's equality;
- to examine the way women's professional and personal lives are being transformed in the information economy;
- to create opportunities for women and enhance the quality of women's work and women's lives, and
- to plot a course to the future for women and computer technologies.
Themes and topics:
The following themes and topics should be interpreted broadly:
- Women, Work, and Computerization in the Labour Force, in Domestic Spheres, and in a Global Context: Changes to the division of work internationally and along gender lines. Transformation of women's lives and social spheres by increased computer technologies in the home. Information technologies affecting women's status in society, both in traditional and unpaid work, and in traditional and non-traditional employment.
- Creating models, tools and theories: Insights from women's studies and feminist research used in computer science and informatics. Feminist criticisms of information technologies to enhance our understanding of women. Feminist perspectives in computer science.
- Information Society, Multimedia, Cyberspace, and Networking: The body represented in cyberspace/virtual reality, the body as interface. Transgressing the gendered body. Accessibility to computers and Internet as gender issue. The merge of public and private spaces. Technology related transformation of time, space and place in women's work and lives.
- Education and pedagogy: Engendering informatics curricula. Teaching the subjectivity of modelling and designing in informatics. Changing education for women by information technology. Equal access for women and men. Gendered learning. Educational strategies for girls and women.
- History - Herstory: Recognition of women's influence in formative processes of informatics. Herstory of feminist criticism of information technology.
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