Cartography of gender equality projects in ICT: Liberal equality from the perspective of situated equality

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 384-403

  Vehviläinen, Marja ^a   Brunila, Kristiina ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gender and ICT; Gender equality; Gender equality projects; Liberal equality; Situated equality; Understandings of equality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547450159     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701410067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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