Book contents
- Cracking the Digital Ceiling
- Cracking the Digital Ceiling
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Global Perspectives
- Part II Regional Perspectives
- Part III Cultural Perspectives from the United States and Europe
- 7 Against All Odds
- 8 Cultures and Context in Tech
- 9 Perspectives of Women with Disabilities in Computing
- 10 An Interview with Dr. Sue Black, OBE, Computer Scientist and Computing Evangelist
- 11 An Overview of the Swedish Educational System with a Focus on Women in Computer Science
- 12 Portugal
- 13 Women in Computing
- Part IV Cultural Perspectives from Asia-Pacific
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- References
8 - Cultures and Context in Tech
A Dynamic System
from Part III - Cultural Perspectives from the United States and Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2019
Book contents
- Cracking the Digital Ceiling
- Cracking the Digital Ceiling
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Global Perspectives
- Part II Regional Perspectives
- Part III Cultural Perspectives from the United States and Europe
- 7 Against All Odds
- 8 Cultures and Context in Tech
- 9 Perspectives of Women with Disabilities in Computing
- 10 An Interview with Dr. Sue Black, OBE, Computer Scientist and Computing Evangelist
- 11 An Overview of the Swedish Educational System with a Focus on Women in Computer Science
- 12 Portugal
- 13 Women in Computing
- Part IV Cultural Perspectives from Asia-Pacific
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- References
Summary
Silicon Valley draws many cultures together from nearly all facets of computing to a single, sprawling 1,854-square-mile geographic location, and as of 2017, Silicon Valley boasted a population of more than three million people with over 37.5% of Silicon Valley residents having been born outside the United States (Joint Venture Silicon Valley, 2017). Silicon Valley has created a legend that has attracted people – so much so that they leave countries and continents behind to relocate there to work.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Cracking the Digital CeilingWomen in Computing around the World, pp. 142 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
References
Apple Computer, Inc. (1997). Apple –Here’s to the Crazy Ones (1997) [Video]. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjgtLSHhTPg.Google Scholar
Applin, S. (2016). Disrupting Silicon Valley Dreams: Adaptations through Making, Being, and Branding. Doctoral thesis, University of Kent, Canterbury.Google Scholar
Budds, D. (2017). The Fascinating History of “Designed in California”: The Apple Tagline Is Older than You Think. Fast Company. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from www.fastcompany.com/90129351/the-history-of-designed-in-california.Google Scholar
Cameron, N. (2018). Why Replicating Silicon Valley Is a Fool’s Game. Blog. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from https://unherd.com/2018/08/replicating-silicon-valley-fools-game/.Google Scholar
Chang, E. (2018). Women Once Ruled the Computer World. When Did Silicon Valley Become Brotopia? Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-01/women-once-ruled-computers-when-did-the-valley-become-brotopia.Google Scholar
Cusumano, M. (1988). Systems Development Corporation: Defining the Factory Challenge. Working Paper 1887-87, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Cambridge, MA. Retrieved August 30, 2018, from https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/49002/systemdevelopmen00cusu.pdf?sequence=1.Google Scholar
De Vynck, G., and Verhage, J. (2018). New York Will Never Be Silicon Valley. And It’s Good with That. Bloomberg. Retrieved August 30, 2018, from www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-27/new-york-will-never-be-silicon-valley-and-it-s-good-with-that.Google Scholar
Duffy, B. E., and Schwartz, B. (2018). Digital “Women’s Work?”: Job Recruitment Ads and the Feminization of Social Media Employment. New Media & Society, 20(8), 2972–2989.Google Scholar
English-Lueck, J. (2002). Cultures@Silicon Valley. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Hayden, S. (2011). Brand Marketing “1984”: As Good as It Gets. Adweek. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/1984-good-it-gets-125608/.Google Scholar
Hempel, J. (2018). How Social Media Became a Pink Collar Job. Wired. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from www.wired.com/story/how-social-media-became-a-pink-collar-job/.Google Scholar
Joint Venture Silicon Valley. (2017). 2017 Silicon Valley Index. San Jose, CA: Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Retrieved Aug. 29, 2018, from https://jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/index2017.pdf.Google Scholar
Kowitt, B. (2018). Female-Founded Startups Generate More Revenue and Do It with Less Funding. Fortune. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from http://fortune.com/2018/06/07/female-founded-startups-revenue-funding/.Google Scholar
Lacey, N. (2017). To Understand Women’s Rights We Must Look at Gendered Laws. Retrieved September 7, 2018, from www.opendemocracy.net/openjustice/gender-and-la.Google Scholar
McCune, E. (2014). 10 Examples of Gender Inequality in the World. Borgen Magazine. Retrieved September 7, 2018, from www.borgenmagazine.com/10-examples-gender-inequality-world/.Google Scholar
Mohan, P. (2018). Most VC’s Are (Still) White Men, and 40% Went to Harvard or Stanford. Fast Company. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from www.fastcompany.com/90210794/most-vcs-are-still-white-men-and-40-went-to-harvard-or-stanford.Google Scholar
Pellow, D., and Park, L. (2002). The Silicon Valley of Dreams. New York: New York University Press.Google Scholar
Scheinin, R. (2017). About Silicon Valley’s Crazy Housing Situation: One Real Estate Exec Deconstructs the Market. The Mercury News. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/25/about-silicon-valleys-crazy-housing-situation-one-real-estate-exec-deconstructs-the-market/.Google Scholar
Siltanen, R. (2018). The Real Story Behind Apple’s “Think Different” Campaign. Forbes. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from www.forbes.com/sites/onmarketing/2011/12/14/the-real-story-behind-apples-think-different-campaign/#1ed5851a62ab.Google Scholar
Werft, M. (2017). 7 Feminist Laws Iceland Has That the World Needs. Retrieved September 7, 2018, from www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/7-iceland-feminist-law-women/.Google Scholar
Zarya, V. (2018). Female Founders Got 2% of Venture Capital Dollars in 2017. Fortune. Retrieved August 29, 2018, from http://fortune.com/2018/01/31/female-founders-venture-capital-2017/.Google Scholar