What's Wrong with the Pipeline? Assumptions about Gender and Culture in IT Work.
In scholarly and practical discourse, the under-representation of women in technology and science is often attributed to a shortage of women "in the pipeline." In this essay, we analyze this dominant metaphor and argue that it imposes an appealing but simplistic symbol onto a labor market filled wit...
| Publicado en: | Women's Studies Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 176 - 202 |
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