Date:	Tuesday, 23rd March 2010 - 12:30:00
	Speaker:	Professor Judith Glover, Roehampton University
	Venue:	Room 6038 Frank Lampl Building Kingston Hill campus

“Technical but not very"... Constructing Gendered Identities in IT-related Professional Employment

This presentation focuses on research into the way in which senior managers in the IT sector understand and construct the issue of the low representation of women in professional IT-related employment. In this research, there was considerable evidence that employers were constructing gendered identities in traditional ways, drawing on women's perceived 'soft skills'. 'Hybrid' roles combining technical and traditionally female skills were presented as new opportunities for women. Whether these are good opportunities for women is a central part of the presentation, which will also discuss the nature of hybrid jobs in the IT sector and their possibly gendered nature.

Judith Glover is Professor of Employment Studies in the School of Business and Social Sciences at Roehampton University and Director of the newly created Centre for Organizational Research. She comes from a sociology and social policy background and will shortly move into the newly reorganised Department of Business at Roehampton. She has published extensively on women's employment, with a specific emphasis on women in science, engineering and technology.

To book a place on any of the below seminars please email Luisa Gale at l.gale@kingston.ac.uk