The status of women in the UK IT industry: an empirical study
European Journal of Information Systems
Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet
Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet
The Rise of the Network Society
The Rise of the Network Society
Brothers
From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures
From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures
Absent Friends? The Gender Dimension in Information Systems Research
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8/WG8.2 Working Conference on Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: The Social and Organizational Perspective
A New Paradigm for Considering Gender in Information Systems Development Research
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8/WG8.2 Working Conference on Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: The Social and Organizational Perspective
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8/WG8.2 Working Conference on Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: The Social and Organizational Perspective
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8/WG8.2 Working Conference on Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology
The Role of Gender in User Resistance and Information Systems Failure
HOIT '00 Proceedings of the IFIP TC9 WG9.3 International Conference on Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics,: Information, Technology and Society
Research Commentary: Technology-Mediated Learning--A Call for Greater Depth and Breadth of Research
Information Systems Research
Media Literacy and Universal Access in Europe
The Information Society
A structured review of IS research on gender and IT
Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference on Computers and people research
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Government, major information and communications technology (ICT) companies, and educational institutions in the United Kingdom currently claim that ICT skills training offers inclusion into the new economy. We focus on a private-public training initiative and its impact on the socially excluded, specifically lone women parents. Narrative data from four United Kingdom educational sites participating in this computer network engineer training program highlight a systemic paradox: that ICT skills development initiatives designed to support lone women parents are simultaneously working in opposition to broader policy goals such as work-life balance and ironically serve to reproduce the participants' classification as socially excluded. The assumptions underpinning the model of social inclusion driving the ICT skills training course are analyzed critically using the concepts of community of practice, classificatory systems, and marginalization. Our findings suggest that ICT training courses and initiatives should be accompanied by changes in pedagogic practice that accommodate the more wide-ranging needs of those targeted for inclusion, as well as changes in employment settings. We conclude by exploring the implications of this for government policy formation, business vendor qualifications, the design of ICT skills training initiatives, and our understanding of the role of ICT skills in overcoming the digital divide.