象征权力、话语和女性在IT行业的代表性不足

Tanya Jurado, A. Tretiakov, Jo Bensemann
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目的:作者旨在通过分析旨在鼓励女性加入IT行业的运动所引发的媒体话语,来帮助理解女性在IT行业的长期代表性不足。设计/方法/途径对英国极客小姐活动的网络媒体报道作为定性数据进行分析,以揭示系统和连贯的模式,有助于在IT行业和IT就业方面对女性角色的社会建构。虽然表面上支持女性赋权,但话语将女性参与IT行业视为难以实现的目标,关注女性被认为是“女性化”的基本特征(因此,有效地暗示她们比男性更不适合IT就业),并要求女性通过个人努力克服障碍(因此,含蓄地将不平衡归咎于她们)。在这些方面,这些言论与竞选活动的更广泛目标背道而驰。促进妇女参与的运动和组织应该努力建立新的框架,而不是让话语被既定的框架所塑造。原创性/价值作者运用布迪厄关于符号权力的观点来解释话语中的框架:现存父权秩序背后的符号权力通过框架表达自己,从而有助于维持该秩序。通过展示布迪厄的象征力量的相关性,作者对女性在IT行业的代表性不足是如何产生和维持的提供了一种新颖的理解。
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Symbolic power, discourse, and underrepresentation of women in IT
PurposeThe authors aim to contribute to the understanding of the enduring underrepresentation of women in the IT industry by analysing media discourse triggered by a campaign intended to encourage women to join the IT industry.Design/methodology/approachInternet media coverage of the Little Miss Geek campaign in the UK was analysed as qualitative data to reveal systematic and coherent patterns contributing to the social construction of the role of women with respect to the IT industry and IT employment.FindingsWhile ostensibly supporting women's empowerment, the discourse framed women's participation in the IT industry as difficult to achieve, focused on women's presumed “feminine” essential features (thus, effectively implying that they are less suitable for IT employment than men), and tasked women with overcoming the barrier via individual efforts (thus, implicitly blaming them for the imbalance). In these ways, the discourse worked against the broader aims of the campaign.Social implicationsCampaigns and organisations that promote women's participation should work to establish new frames, rather than allowing the discourse to be shaped by the established frames.Originality/valueThe authors interpret the framing in the discourse using Bourdieu's perspective on symbolic power: the symbolic power behind the existing patriarchal order expressed itself via framing, thus contributing to the maintenance of that order. By demonstrating the relevance of Bourdieu's symbolic power, the authors offer a novel understanding of how underrepresentation of women in the IT sector is produced and maintained.
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