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Most Excellent Women in the Field of Technology

October 21st, 2011

Women and technology, once again, like two worlds apart. Many of the stereotypes in the society that finally awakened to marginalize women from the world of technology development. While technological development is so rapid and open up great opportunities for groundbreaking efforts women’s movement and women’s empowerment, women still have not become central in the development of it. Real, women are still a lot just being objects of world development technology, and can not fully utilize the technology plays a crucial role for empowerment.

Would you agree to say that our technology is very masculine face?

First, I want to question the term. Said to be masculine since the beginning of its development, if we look at the history of its development, mainly because women are not in the public domain at that time, just like science. Because of that, then comes the impression that the technology is masculine. Then I ask, the definition of technology that is not what it masculine? Is it because the big machines, and technologies to be masculine? Indeed, the structure of the machine are often not adapted to women’s bodies. Now the car has been mending construction. Back then, women can not drive because his car is not in accordance with the structure of their bodies. If in that case, is yes (the technology is masculine). In terms of idea development, we are going to say, for example, reproductive technologies, most do look masculine. For example, are often so the problem is now in a reproductive technologies: why women are always the object of family planning? Why not men? Not because men do not like it, but because it is considered easier to do family planning in women, because of the biological structure is the easy way if female hormonal regulated. That’s an example. There is the impression that, but we must be careful, do not average out. » Read more: Most Excellent Women in the Field of Technology