Deck 8: Genders and Technology

Question 1

Why are technological advances such as birth control often criticized?

A) They are perceived as changing a women's body.
B) They are perceived as providing too many choices.
C) They are seen as part of the patriarchal structure.
D) They move women's bodies away from a natural state.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The women's liberation view advocates that technology can liberate women by what means?

A) Creating alternative, flexible work environments
B) Doing their work for them
C) Giving them fewer choices to make in daily life
D) Giving them social status through ownership

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Wajcman describes housework in terms of which three main characteristics?

A) Public, centralized, labour-intensive
B) Privatized, centralized, repetitive
C) Public, decentralized, repetitive
D) Privatized, decentralized, labour-intensive

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The adoption of household technologies was believed to allow homemakers more time for what?

A) Leisure
B) Child-rearing
C) Travelling
D) Making meals

Question 5

Cleanliness and tidiness became representations of all of the following except for what?

A) Social status
B) Happiness
C) Efficiency
D) Well-being

Question 6

Same sex couples use technologies

A) based on their assigned at birth biological sex
B) based on stereotypical understanding of domestic task assignment
C) based on personal negotiations
D) None of the above

Question 7

The rise of cybertariats can be considered an example of what?

A) User-actor gender gap
B) Gender resegregation
C) Domestic science movement
D) The ADA Initiative

Question 8

Fountain's critique of the gender gap in technology states that only through what will gender diversity be achieved?

A) Active engagement
B) Passive engagement
C) Going to university
D) Recruiting active agents

Question 9

Which of the following initiative helps bring women to IT jobs?

A) Coding Divas
B) Coders in Action
C) IT Ladies
D) Ladies Learning Code

Question 10

Scratch was created to teach whom to code?

A) Adults
B) Seniors
C) Women
D) Children

Question 11

What is the name given to the new hands-on learning spaces popping up in libraries?

A) Workshops
B) Makerspaces
C) Learning-labs
D) None of the above

Question 12

McLuhan coined the phrase "the medium is the message" based on his analysis of which of the following technologies?

A) Television
B) Radio
C) Internet
D) Cellphone

Question 13

What evidence exists that programming classes designed for women help the attendees achieve their goals?

A) There is not as of yet any substantial proof of it.
B) Studies show that women and girls feel more confident in classes geared specifically toward them.
C) Studies show that women and girls better learn in classes geared toward them.
D) Studies show that classes geared specifically toward women and girls have an effect of deepening gender resegregation.

Question 14

The pro-ana community is an example of how the body has been brought back into which realm?

A) Physical
B) Analog
C) Basic
D) Virtual

Question 15

The creation of rituals and tools helps to establish who is a member and who is an outsider, and it reinforces what boundaries?

A) Geographic
B) Functional
C) Relational
D) Community

Question 16

What will stigmatized individuals look for in an online community?

A) A sense of belonging
B) Scapegoats
C) Profitability
D) Increased self-esteem

Question 17

Mitch Resnick from MIT's Media Laboratory argues that __________.

A) girls need to learn code before they learn mathematics
B) children need to learn to code early
C) girls need to learn code in environments focused on their learning needs
D) it is important to develop coding program aimed at girls

Question 18

Which of the following is not a reason the textbook author gives for including the body in the discussion technology?

A) Technology defines the body.
B) Technology interacts with the body.
C) Not all bodies are the same.
D) Technology does not determine the body.

Question 19

Research by Haight, Quan-Haase, and Corbett shows that in 2014 there is no longer a difference in Internet access between men and women in Canada.

Question 20

One of the difficulties facing individuals responsible for housework is that there are no formally established roles, tasks, or deadlines, which makes it difficult to determine when work is complete.

Question 21

Labour-saving technology drastically decreased the amount of time homemakers spent on housework.

Question 22

Mainstream media has not been more effective than YouTube in its portrayal of transgender individuals.

Question 23

Gender resegregation occurs only after gender equality has been achieved.

Question 24

Body erasure is the act of neglecting to consider the body during the design of technologies.

Question 25

Goffman described information control techniques as mechanisms that allow stigmatized individuals to open up to a community that understands their struggles.

Question 26

Three in five Wikipedia editors are women.

Question 27

Facebook was an early adopter of gender self-identification categories.

Question 28

Wajcman proposes two opposing views to describe the relation between women and technology. List the two opposing views and describe their central arguments briefly.

Question 29

The body is often neglected in discussions of technology. What are the three key reasons suggested by the text that make it relevant to bring the body back into discussions of technology?

Question 30

Using the example of #NoMoreStolenSisters discuss what role can feminist digital activism via social media play in creating social change. Do you think feminist digital activism can lead toward policy change? Discuss how an online movement can create change and what the challenges are.

Question 31

Huws proposed the term cybertariat to describe the work of women in developing countries that engage with technology. Why does the term describe inequality between genders? How does technology in this case serve to recreate inequality rather than overcome it?