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Critical Race and Gender Theory in Information Technology @ UW

This publication was started as a class project for Prof. Negin Dahya at the University of Washington School of Information. It not an official publication for the UW iSchool.

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Jun 6, 2018

Women in Tech

Lack of gender diversity in the tech industry is a pressing issue of our times. However, this was not always the case. Women in fact were among the pioneers of this field. For decades, the number of women studying computer science was in fact higher than the number of men; though this changed in…

Andrea Jorge in Critical Race and Gender Theory in Information Technology @ UW

Jun 1, 2018

git rm -r the-model-minority

As I finish up my final years of undergrad, I contemplate what’s next. Along with my degree, I’ll have romanticized ideas of what life has in store. But, as an Asian-American woman endeavoring to break into tech, it’s critical I recognize a reality of the space I long to join…

Anonymous Student in Critical Race and Gender Theory in Information Technology @ UW

May 30, 2018

Problems with the Token Minority

One of the biggest gender biases that women encounter in the workforce is the concept of the “token” female (Schulte, 2015). In this revolutionary age of heightened scrutiny on gender biases in the workplace, many employers are increasing the diversity of their employees…

Cedric Ith in Critical Race and Gender Theory in Information Technology @ UW

May 30, 2018

Gender Equity for Avatars in Social VR

Virtual Reality has gone through waves of popularity in the past with a variation of a VR headset being first patented in 1939, and the first “true” headset being created in the 1970's. But in the past 4 years, VR has seen yet another spike and its presence has…