LAS 432 Week 2 DQ 1 Technology and Determinism\tWajcman raises some interesting issues regarding gender and technology: the association of technology with masculinity, the role of women as consumers of technological products, and the new perspectives and opportunities that soft technologies, such as computers, have opened for women. Why do the soft technologies open more opportunities for women? To what extent have these technologies impacted the perceptions of men’s and women’s roles in the economy, within marriage, and in society as a whole?\u00a0\t\u00a0\tThere seems to be a tendency for us to think that \u00a0technology is “neutral”\ufffd as to social groups, women, older, \u00a0Native Americans, the poor and so on. \u00a0 We need to examine this assumption carefully. \u00a0Wajcman raises some interesting issues regarding gender and technology: the association of technology with masculinity, the role of women as consumers of technological products, and the new perspectives and opportunities that soft technologies, such as computers, have opened for women. Why do the soft technologies open more opportunities for women? To what extent have these technologies impacted the perceptions of men’s and women’s roles in the economy, within marriage, and in society as a whole?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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