{"id":12598,"date":"2012-10-13T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12598"},"modified":"2012-10-13T03:00:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T08:00:24","slug":"womens-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12598","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Women&#039;s Work&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/09\/why-the-first-laptop-had-such-a-hard-time-catching-on-hint-sexism\/262220\/\">Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On (Hint: Sexism)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting observation why businessmen weren&#8217;t on the laptop bandwagon early on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though Hawkins doesn&#8217;t quite say it. There is a distinct gendered component to this discomfort. Typing was women&#8217;s work and these business people, born in the 1930s and 1940s, didn&#8217;t scrap their way up the bureaucracy to be relegated to the very secretarial work they&#8217;d been devaluing all along.<\/p>\n<p>Because &#8212; and here comes the psychological reason &#8212; they were not good at the work that their female employees had been doing. And that made them feel bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On (Hint: Sexism) Interesting observation why businessmen weren&#8217;t on the laptop bandwagon early on: Though Hawkins doesn&#8217;t quite say it. There is a distinct gendered component to this discomfort. Typing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-other-science","category-science-y-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}