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dc.contributor.authorHunter, Rosemary
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:57:24Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:57:24Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.modified2009-12-15T03:17:30Z
dc.identifier.issn10301763
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/27537
dc.description.abstractThis article examines discrimination in information technology (IT) organisations from two different perspectives--that of anti-discrimination law, drawing on reported cases of discrimination in IT-related employment, and that of the experiences, understandings and responses of women IT professionals, drawing on focus group interviews with women from a range of private and public sector organisations. Both the cases and the interviews suggest that the major forms of discrimination against women in IT organisations revolve around pregnancy, maternity leave, the unavailability of part-time work to accommodate family responsibilities, and sexual harassment. However most of the women interviewed either did not see these as forms of discrimination, avoided the subject of discrimination altogether, or pointedly denied the existence of discrimination in their organisation. The article then considers the phenomenon of the denial of discrimination and concludes that the ,focus group interviews provided illustrations of the day-to-day 'practices of the self', whereby women IT professionals disavow their femininity and any disadvantages flowing from it. While these strategies enable women to survive in male-dominated workplaces, they do not challenge the practices of discrimination that are apparently widespread in IT organisations.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10301763.2006.10669332
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom91
dc.relation.ispartofpageto108
dc.relation.ispartofedition2006
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalLabour & Industry
dc.relation.ispartofvolume16
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4406
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.titleDiscrimination in IT Organisations
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Law
gro.date.issued2006
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorHunter, Rosemary C.


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