Sacramento Bee Special Report on Women in Computing, 1996. Visit the Women and Gender Studies Science and Technology Web Sites at MIT University,USA, for more information about women and computer science. Women In The Computer Industry for interesting quotes from women in the computer industry. My gender is interesting but really not the subject of the story here. Androcentric -Male centred.
Androcentric theory is the view that the male sex is primary and the female secondary .
Phallocentric - Term, like androcentric, which points out the masculine bias of our culture. Phallocracy - Social, political, ideological system which perpetuates the domination of men and the subordination of women. Double standard -Patriarchal moral code which sets different rules for behaviour according to gender. Under the double standard, behaviour condemned in a woman is accepted or even applauded in a man. Herstory - Term used for women s history, and to point up to the fact that what is presented as our history is all too often simply his story .