EFF "Net Culture -- Gender Issues" Archive

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access_discuss_fem.article

"Women's Access to On-Line Discussions About Feminism," by Ellen Balka, is a paper about the effects of the internet on feminism. The paper examines how the internet provides access for women to feminist resources and disucssions.

bawit.cfp93

"Gender Issues in Online Communications," by Hoai-An Truong, of the Bay Area Women in Telecommunications (BAWiT), gives an overview of issues affecting women in cyberspace and which may affect the participation of women in public media.

becoming_comp_sci.article

Report by the Association for Computing Machinery on the status of women in computing science. The report focuses on the low number of women in the field at all levels, and looks for reasons for this underrepresentation.

careers_for_women_in_science.article

Description of a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Energy of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in order to recognize the achievements of women in scientific and technical fields. The description is followed by a witness list.

cherny_gender_differences.article

Paper by Lynn Cherny about the differences in communication between male and female characters in a text-based virtual reality environment.

cmc_and_gender.article

Article by Susan Herring, in which she discusses the differences in the style and ethics of men and women in posting messages on the internet.

cottrell_stranger.article

Article by Jane Cottrell, entitled "I'm a Stranger Here Myself: A Consideration of Women in Computing," in which she discusses possible reasons for the underrepresentation of women in computer science faculties and why this underrepresentation is cause for concern.

cross_gender_communciation.paper

"Cross-Gender Communication in Cyberspace" by Gladys We (1993) discusses how women and men communicate with each other in online social environments including USENET, MUDS, and mailing lists

cyberfeminism.article

Regarding the feminist potential of hypertext technology.

empire_strikes_back.html

Article by Sandy Stone about transsexuals and the effect of gender change operations on their identities.

feminism_and_cyberpunk.article

Brief article defining cyberpunk feminism as a distinct school of feminist thought.

feminization_of_cyberspace.paper

The Femininization of Cyberspace by Doctress Neutopia "Entering into the Computer Age, we find ourselves in another social transition. The technological possibilities for revolutionary change on a world-wide level are now available to us. That is, if feminist ideology can come to the forefront of the dialogue. I don't believe I am being an extremist to say that there is a war against the feminist voice occurring in Cyberspace."

frenkel_cacm_womcomp.article

Paper by Karen Frenkel in which she studies the reasons why women enter the computer industry rather than earn advanced degrees and enter the ivory tower.

gender_in_networking.paper

"Gender Issues in Computer Networking," a talk given by Leslie Regan Shade. As the title would suggest, this is an overview of the different gender issues that arise as a result of networking.

gender_issues_in_online_comms.paper

"Gender Issues in Online Communications," by Hoai-An Truong, of the Bay Area Women in Telecommunications (BAWiT), gives an overview of issues affecting women in cyberspace and which may affect the participation of women in public media. (also known as bawit.cfp93)

ieee.article

Article by Dale Strok, which originally appeared in IEEE Expert, Vol. 7, No. 4, August 1992. The article, "Women in AI," discusses the studies of women in computer science, and then looks at AI to determine if the same problems exist for women in AI as they do in the rest of computer science.

images_of_women.sea

la_times_roundtable_on_women.article

The full text of an e-mail roundtable discussion, sponsored by the LA Times, about women in computing.

leslie_regan_shade.article

"Gender Issues in Computer Networking," a talk given by Leslie Regan Shade. As the title would suggest, this is an overview of the different gender issues that arise as a result of networking. (also known as gender_in_networking.paper)

mulvaney.article

Article by Becky Michele Mulvany, entitled "Gender Differences in Communication: An Intercultural Experience." Mulvaney argues that gender communication is to be viewed as intercultural communication.

net_feminization.paper

stone_interview_w_mondo.html

violation_and_virtuality.html

we_cross_gender.paper

what_vampires_know.html

why_systers_borg.article

women_in_ai.article

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Ellen Spertus' Gender Directory

IGC's Women's Menu

Centre for Women's Studies in Education @ OISE

Grace Hopper Conference/Celebration

The Ada Project

a clearinghouse for information and resources relating to women in computing, located at Yale.

Women Organizing for Change (WOC)

Women Leaders Online, the first women's advocacy group on the Internet, has launched an unprecedented campaign to mobilize one million women and supportive men for grassroots political activism in 1996 and beyond. WOC intends to make a major difference in the 1996 elections, an election in which women's votes are expected to be decisive. Register online today and you'll also find a wealthy supply of feminist news and issue alerts, links to women's resources, a 10-point Women's Contract With America, and an expose of anti-feminist women.

Women's Web World: The Feminist Majority Foundation Online

Empowering, mobilizing, and informing women while also providing professional, health, legal, career, or counseling resources and daily feminist news.

Women's Web Magazine

A multi-faceted women's publication that's updated monthly and produced by Evergreen Internet. Focusing on timely topics and events, Women's Web Magazine is particularly interested in addressing the concerns of entrepreneurial women.