If technology merely reflects the perspectives of the male stereotype, then new technologies are unlikely to accommodate the diverse social contexts within which they operate.
While redressing unequal representation in the workplace is a step in the right direction, broader social change is needed to address the structural inequalities embedded within the current organisation of work and employment.
Gross gender inequality in the technology sector is problematic, not only for the industry-wide marginalisation of women, but because technology designs embody the values of their makers.
Without diversity of thought and representation, society is left with a distorted picture of future options, which are likely to result in augmenting existing inequalities.
A typical example is Wikipedia, where the overwhelming majority of contributors are male and so the available content is skewed to reflect their interests.
Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer: Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph.
Reconsidering micropractices within relationships that are constituted within and simultaneously contributors to regimes of truth acknowledges the central position of power/knowledge in the constitution of what has come to be considered true and real.įive jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below.
A Foucauldian approach to relationships goes beyond these conceptions of discourse and history to macrolevel regimes of truth as constituting relationships.
Relationships are nothing without the communication that brings them into being interpersonal communication is connected to knowledge shared by interlocutors, and scholars should attend to relational histories in their analyses.
It is regimes of truth that make certain relationships speakable – relationships, like subjectivities, are constituted through discursive formations, which sustain regimes of truth.
Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.