empowerment [extended version]
Post on 22-Jan-2018
502 Views
Preview:
TRANSCRIPT
Empowerment.What does that even mean?
Laura Laugwitz
@lauralindal
Rails Girls Berlin
eurucamp
Social + Computer Science = <3
Laura Laugwitz
@lauralindal
Rails Girls Berlin
eurucamp
Social + Computer Science = <3
Empower application X to be more Y
Empower Users to buy more Z
Empower application X to be more Y
Empower Users to buy more Z
„[...] empowerment refers to the process by which those who have been denied the ability to make choices acquire such an ability”
(Kabeer 2005)
„[Empowerment] is understood as improving the political, social, ecomonic and spiritual power of a community or a person that is/are structurally disadvantaged because of constructs such as race, religion, gender, sexuality, class, ability and/or age“
(Brilling, Hamaz, Erguen-Hamaz 2013: 4)
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
(Steinem ~1970)
„To understand the situation of oppression, one must first critically recognize its roots in order to then change the situation and create a new one [.. .]“
(Freire 1974: 34)
Understand what is happening
!
Lovelace &
Lamarr &
Hopper &
Bartik &
Granville &
Hamilton &
Perlman &
Borg.
Exposure to Computers
Confidence Interest→
School & University
Stereotype Threat
Study Groups
Classroom
Working Life
Job Listings
Selection Process
Interruptions
Care Work
Undermining the
systemic reproduction of inequality
individual
Learn
Understand
Support
group-related
Join Forces
Value Cooperation over Competition
Keep the Conversation going
structural
Establish new Structures
Establish yourself
Promote those who care
hiremorewomenintech.com
modelviewculture.com
geekfeminism.org
top related