Dear AoIR members, I am thrilled to share the news about my new book: Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology: Women Doing IT for Themselves, about how women find their way into tech careers. This open access book explores what makes women decide to pursue a career in male-dominated fields such as information technology (IT). It reveals how women experience gendered stereotypes but also how they bypass, negotiate, and challenge such stereotypes, reconstructing gender-technology relations in the process. Using the example of Norway to illuminate this challenge in Western countries, the book includes a discussion of the "gender equality paradox", where gender equality exists in parallel with gender segregation in fields such as IT. The discussion illustrates how the norm of gender equality in some cases hinders rather than promotes efforts to increase women's participation in technology-related roles. It is open access and can be downloaded here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5187-1 Here's a discount code if you want a paper version: 2KbHh90AX1PdNT / Valid Oct 11, 2023 - Nov 8, 2023 Please join the digital book launch on 23rd of November @ 15.00-16.00 CET if you are interested in the topic! https://forms.gle/xoP4Y1awptzfLEmy5 Best wishes, Hilde G. Corneliussen Head of Research & Research Professor Technology and Society Western Norway Research Institute / Vestlandsforsking Pb 163, 6851 Sogndal, Norway (+47) 47900814 <mailto:hgc@vestforsk.no> hgc@vestforsk.no <http://vestforsk.no/> http://vestforsk.no/ ORCiD: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9661-9638> https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9661-9638 Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology - Women Doing IT for Themselves (Palgrave Macmillan 2023) Open Access: <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5187-1> https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5187-1