WANE Members Visible at Local Conference
The 37th Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the
Canadian Association on
Gerontology (CAG) was here in London, October 23-25, 2008.
WANE members were fairly visible and played a big part in its
orchestration, particularly Dr. Julie McMullin, who was the
conference chair, and Gale Cassidy, who was the conference
manager.
Tammy Duerden Comeau, Catherine Gordon, and Julie McMullin presented
their paper, “Risky Employment: The Case of IT
Workers,” Emily Jovic presented her paper, “Timing Is
Everything? 'On Time' And 'Off Time' Entry To Information
Technology Work,” and Libby Brooke presented her paper,
“Negotiation Of Flexibilities In New Economy Firms: Social
Outcomes For Older
Workers And Women.”
Congratulations to Victor Marshall, who was this year’s
recipient of the CAG Evelyn Shapiro Mentoring Award.
For link to the conference program,
click here
For more
information about WANE please contact us at
wane@uwo.ca
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston,
USA, August 1-4, 2008
WANE members presented 2
papers at the
American Sociological Annual Meetings, August
1-4, 2008, Boston, USA.
Tracey Adams (University of Western Ontario)
and Erin Demaiter (University of Toronto) presented their
paper entitled,
“'I really didn't have any problem with the
male-female thing until…': Women in information technology (IT)
organizations.”
Julie McMullin, Victor Marshall, Tammy Duerden
Comeau, and Catherine Gordon presented their paper entitled,
"Aging and employment relations: Dilemmas of owners and workers
in a risk society."
For more
information about WANE please contact us at
wane@uwo.ca
Presentation at the
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), San
Jose, Costa Rica, July 21-23, 2008.
Martin Cooke and Kerry Platman presented
their paper entitled, “Labour market
transitions of IT workers in Canada and the UK" in the Symposium on
'Life course as a policy lens: labour, flexicurity and
aging'.
For more
information about WANE please contact us at
wane@uwo.ca
Workforce Aging in the New Economy at IT Industry
Conference, May 7-9, 2008
Team members Catherine Gordon and Emily Jovic represented the Workforce Aging in the New Economy
(WANE) project at Summit, 2008 (Training event for IM/IT
professionals) Premier Learning Event, Ottawa, Canada, May
7-9, 2008.
The project's Future Work HR toolkit for small to
medium sized IT firms was promoted. (Powerpoint
presentation; PDF
document)
For more information about WANE project please contact us at
wane@uwo.ca
“I really didn’t have any problems
with the male-female thing until …”:
Women in IT Organizations.
Erin I. Demaiter*, University of Toronto
(e.demaiter@utoronto.ca) and Tracey L. Adams,
The University of Western Ontario
Abstract:
The gendered nature of organizations limits
women’s opportunities for advancement. While
women have made inroads into many male-dominated
jobs, with and without the help of equity
policies, studies suggest that they face many
difficulties and can be marginalized within
masculine workplace cultures. In this paper, we
examine the experiences of eleven women who have
had successful careers in the male-dominated
information technology field, to explore their
perceptions of the barriers and opportunities
women face. We find that our respondents have a
tendency to downplay the significance of gender,
even as they provide evidence that gender has
shaped their careers. We argue that their
reluctance to see how gender conditions women’s
careers, constrains their ability to bring about
meaningful change.
Keywords: Gender; Organizations; Women;
Barriers; Information Technology
For more information about WANE project please contact
us at wane@uwo.ca
