XI: Gender, Science and Technology
Monday June 21 
Auditorium, Breivika Vocational School
Capacity: 90
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker
 Aud. Breivika Vocational School 
Nelly Oudshoorn (Netherlands): On Gender and Things
 
 2nd. Session
Gendering of Information and Communications Technologies
Chair/Coordinator: Julia Kuark (Switzerland)
Janice Mclaughlin (UK): Gendering Technological Change
Julia Kuark (Switzerland): The Designing of Lives and Works: As Engineers and as Users
Alla Alexandrovna Pozeeva (Russia): Role of Women in Developing of Information Technologies
 
 3rd Session
Women in Computer Science and Engineering 
Chair/Coordinator: Jacqueline Watts (UK)
Jacqueline Watts (UK): The Place of Women in the U.K. Civil Engineering Industry
Maggie McPherson (UK): Comparative Research into Gender and the Computing Culture
 
 4th. Session
Women in Computer Science and Engineering (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Andrea Birbaumer (Austria)
Vivian A. L. Berg (Norway): Woman and Computer Engineer? Shaping of Young Women's Professional Identities as Computer Engineers
Andrea Birbaumer (Austria): Looking for Women in Computer Science, an Austrian Perspective (Co-author: H. Tellioglu)
   
 
 5th. Session
Information and Communications, Technology, Power and Development
Chair/Coordinator: Esther Bathiri Williams (Fiji)
Esther Bathiri Williams (Fiji): Why So Silent? Empowering Women in a Wired World
Madonna Kolbenschlag (USA): The Future of Women's Education: Empowering Women Through Information Technology
Sari Tuuva (Finland) and Johanna Uotinen (Finland): In the Future It Is the ICT That Rules, No Matter What! Women's Experiences of Computers in North Carelia, Finland
Barbara L. Allen (USA): Building Processes That Work: Women Reinterpreting Science in Louisiana's Cancer Alley
   



 
 
 XI: Gender, Science and Technology
Tuesday June 22 
Auditorium, Breivika Vocational School
Capacity: 90
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker
 Aud. Breivika Vocational School 
Sandra Harding (USA): Is Science Multicultural? Feminist Issues
 
 2nd. Session
Women in Academia and Higher Education
Chair/Coordinator: Margo Brouns (Netherlands)
Marianne Ainley (Canada): Women and Science at Canadian Universities, 1880-1970
Marilyn Mac Donald (Canada): Uneasy Alliances: Women's Studies and the Natural/Applied Sciences in Post-Secondary Institutions in Canada
Maca Jogan (Slovenia): Academic Career and Gender (In)equality
Margo Brouns (Netherlands): Gender Bias in the Assessment Procedures of the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research
 
 3rd Session
Women in Academia and Higher Education (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Karin Vosseberg (Germany)
Doris Beer (Germany) and Lise Kofoed (Germany): Aspects of Women's Qualification Process for New Technologies and Modern Forms of Work Organisations IT and Telematic Qualifications for Women
Karin Vosseberg (Germany): Changing the Male University Culture in Computer Science: The Project Informatica Feminale
Esther Eillam (Israel): Towards a Vision of a Feminist Science in the Light of Deconstruction of the Private-Public Dichotomy
 
 4th Session
Women in Academia and Higher Education (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Paula Mählck (Sweden)
Adrianne Kinnear (Australia): The Corporate University: Can It Provide Leadership in Ecology for Global Sustainability?
Paula Mählck (Sweden): Bibliometric and Social Interaction within University Departments
Susan Morton (UK): Redressing the Ballance? A Comparative Overview of Gendered Entry to the EU
Salome Mouthe (Cameroon): The Women Secretary in the Developing World: Case of Cameroon
 
 5th Session



 
 
 XI: Gender, Science and Technology
Wednesday June 23
Auditorium, Breivika Vocational School
Capacity: 90
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker
NB! Aud. Max. Adm. Building 
Govind Kelkar (Thailand): Asian Women at the End of the Millennium
 
 2nd. Session
Reproduction/Medical Technology
Chair/Coordinator: Ann Rudinow Sætnan (Norway)
Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta (Netherlands): Body Parts, Property and Gender
Brita M. Gulli (Norway): Reproductive Equality?
Kyra Landzelius (Sweden): Technologies That Bind: Parental Incubators and Mother-Child Attachment
Ann Rudinow Sætnan (Norway): Negotiating Knowledge ? Women's Experiences with Routine Obstetric Ultrasound in Norway
 
 3rd Session
http://Gender.information.sites-the Quest for Quality
Chair/Coordinator: Maria Grönroos (Norway/Finland)
Katarina Blomqvist (Denmark) and Maria Grönroos (Norway/Finland): A Transnational Virtual Library ? the Necessity of Qualitative Criteria
Nina Kristiansen (Norway): Web-Based Information Services: Advantages and Benefits
Sara Goodman (Sweden): Sweet Success: What Are the Ingredients of a "Successful" On-line Database? The FEMIDOK Example
 
 4th Session
http://Gender.information.sites-the Quest for Quality (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Maria Grönroos (Norway/Finland)
Elsa Modin (Sweden): The Key to Good Keywords in On-line Database Language and Indexing: A Critical Look at KVINNSAM
Cathrine Tømte (Norway): A Self-service Database ? the EDITH Case
Annette Nielsen (Denmark): Sweet Success 2: What Are the Ingredients of a "Successful" Electronic Journal?
Also participating: Maria Youli (Norway)
 
 5th Session
What Has the European Union to Offer Women's Studies
Chair/Coordinator: Margit van der Steen (Netherlands)
 



 
 
 XI: Gender, Science and Technology
Thursday June 24 
Auditorium, Breivika Vocational School
Capacity: 90
 
The Telemedicine Centre, RiTø
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker  

 
 2nd. Session
Equal Access to Information and Communications Technology
Chair/Coordinator: Marja Vehviläinen (Finland)
Marja Vehviläinen (Finland): Equal Access to Computing and Construction of Equality in Finland
Ellen Balka (Canada): Equal Access to Computing and the 
Construction of Equality in Canada
Renate Schulz-Zander (Germany): Multimedia and Networks 
in Schools ? Constructing Gender Culture
Mary Leigh Morbey (Canada): Breaking Barriers to Women's Participation in Computer-Based Media Arts and Visual 
Application on the World Wide Web
Marianne Boere (Netherlands)
 
Telemedicine and Gender Specific Challenges Concerning Use, Consequences and Research (workshop).
Coordinators/contact persons:  Anne-Gerd Ekeland/Lena Sørensen. 
The workshop is organized by the University Hospital of Tromsø, Department of Telemedicine. A detailed program may be obtained from the WW99 secretariat or the Department of Telemedicine
 3rd. Session
Strategies to Achieve Gender Equality in Research and Higher Education Based on Experiences in Norway
Chair/Coordinator: Anne Søyland (Norway)
Participants:
Anne Marit Skarsbø (Norway)
Tone Holmen (Norway)
Lise Christensen (Norway)
Anna Ølnes (Norway)
   
 4th.Session
Women and Communication, Women in the Information Age, Women in the Academy and Hi-Tech Positions
Chair/Coordinator: Aino Saarinen (Finland)
Aino Saarinen (Finland): Gender, Science and Technology
Lilja Mósesdóttir (Sweden): Gender, Science and Technology: Women and Communication, Women in the Information Age, Women in the Academy and Hi-Tech Positions
Angelika Artamonova (Russia): The Woman as an Organizer of the Information Space
 
 5th. Session



 
 
 XI: Gender, Science and Technology
Friday June 25 
Auditorium, Breivika Vocational School
Capacity: 90
 
 1st.Session: Keynote Speaker  

 
 2nd. Session
Gendering Cyberspace 
Chair/Coordinator: Inger Solheim (Norway)
Tove Håpnes (Norway) and Bente Rasmussen (Norway): Girls’ identity on the Internet
Nilufer Timisi (Turkey): Analysis of Gendered Use of Internet: How and Why Women use Internet in Their DailyLlives?
 
 3rd. Session
Gendering Science
Chair/Coordinator: Muthgard Hinkelmann-Toewe (Germany)
Muthgard Hinkelmann-Toewe (Germany): Women as Scientists: Scientific and Political Strategies for the Next Century
Ulrike Maschke (Germany): Women in Science and Research ? Women as Scientists and Researchers
Mette Bryld (Denmark): Thinking the Gendered Brain: Mind in the Water
 
 4th. Session
Gendering Cyberspace (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Nina Lykke (Denmark)
Eileen Green (UK): The Electronic Leisure Experience: A Critical Examination of Gender, Time and ICT Use in the Home
Kristine Anderson (USA): Some Feminist Predecessors of Hypertext
Nina Lykke (Denmark): High-tech Constructions of Nature as Garden of Eden and Sacred Mother
 
 5th. Session