Gender and Technology

Women and gender studies have an interdisciplinary perspective on gender formation and fellowship with other interests such as religion, gender, nationality, race, age, class. Our approach to analysis does not make sex an integral part of our environment, the social aspect of humans and society, but there is a close relationship between them (Bobbie, 2008). From a historical and social point of view, gender and technical ideology is dynamic.

Co-production of gender and technology is the term used to describe "dialectical formation" of gender and technology. It emphasizes gender and technical performance and the nature of the process and suggests that the boundary and contents of both are socially negotiated rather than being determined beforehand. This constructivistic method is called "anti-essentialism" to deny the concept that technology and gender have unique properties (Grint & Woolgar, 1995). This interrelational relationship has been demonstrated by technological enhancement or deconstruction of the gender of technical artifacts and the role of gender in society. For the purposes of this article, it is useful to define the terms "gender" and "technology" before discussion. In this article, we use gender conceptualization of Harding (1986) as a symbol, structure, and individual.

The structural gender of the technology is not merely recognized by the user but rather by the concept of Akrich's (1992) "script", where the relationship of gender is actually materialized as a technical artifact I can. This "scripting" process begins with the designer himself who adds gender to the product assuming gender for the user himself. This is particularly important as the development and design of technology is mainly done by men. The absence of women in STEM's occupation is clearly an important aspect of sexification of artifacts, but the reason for the small number of women is beyond the scope of this article. The practice of "I methodology" (Akrich 1995) that designers think their preferences represent future user preferences means that technical artifacts adapt to the interests of young men.