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Cracking the bro code
"Cracking the Bro-Code is an ethnography that engages women navigating male-dominated cultures of computing. It provides evidence of women's experiences to reveal the values and practices of U.S.-based high-tech institutions and how they reproduce discrimination and harassment not only in their workplaces, but also in the broader political economy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377157
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More than a glitch :confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech
"Broussard argues that the structural inequalities reproduced in algorithmic systems are no glitch. They are part of the system design. This book shows how everyday technologies embody racist, sexist, and ableist ideas; how they produce discriminatory and harmful outcomes; and how this can be challenged and changed"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373050
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Level up :transforming male-dominated organizations for women leaders
"An examination of the factors that influence women's rise to leadership in male-dominated industries, informed by scholarly research and personal interviews"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262371568
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Universal access and its asymmetries :the untold story of the last 200 years
"The pandemic has raised awareness of the need for universal access to high speed internet service in the United States. This book shows us that the debate about internet access is but the latest chapter in a long history of debates about universal service in the United States. This book analyzes the history, costs, and benefits of providing universal access to technologies and services, includ…
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Why so slow? :the advancement of women
Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. Accordi…
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- 9780262285391
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 401 pages) :illustrations
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Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism Complex Trajectories, Prac…
This open access book brings novel perspectives to the scholarship on transnational migration. The book stresses the complexity of migration trajectories and proposes multi-sited field studies to capture this complexity. Its constituent chapters offer examples of onward migration spanning all major world regions. The contents exemplify a range of interdisciplinary approaches, including both qua…
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- 9783031125034
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Gender and the Work-Family Experience: An Intersection of Two Domains
Conflict between work and family has been a topic of discussion since the beginning of the women's movement, but recent changes in family structures and workforce demographics have made it clear that the issues impact both women and men. While employers and policymakers struggle to navigate this new terrain, critics charge that the research sector, too, has been slow to respond. Gender and t…
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- 978-3-319-08890-7
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- XXIII, 358
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- 158.2
Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times : stories disclosed in a cultural f…
Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times shares the stories of students and a professor in a Cultural Foundations of Education Course. Storytellers in this volume grapple with issues of white privilege, racial microaggressions, bullying, cultural barriers, immigration, and other forms of struggle in educational settings. The disciplinary backgrounds of the authors are diverse: Psychology, Comm…
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- CVIII, 26
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- Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action
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- 379.26
Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times
This collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The collection has two aims: first; to honour the contributions of both the spirited individuals who valiantly fought for the enactment of the legislation against the odds, and those who championed the new law once it was passed; secondly, to present a stock-tak…
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- 362 SEX
Stigmatization, discrimination and illness : Experiences among HIV-Seropositi…
“She was given her own plate, her own cup, everything of her own, even when she just touched a cloth then nobody wanted to touch it again.” (Halima, HIV-seropositive) The book sheds light on the profound influence of an HIV-seropositive diagnosis on the lives of women and their social environment in the United Republic of Tanzania. The author, a medical doctor and social anthropologist, tel…
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