Digit Debates: Women in Tech

The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) studies the way that digital technologies are reshaping work.Our academic research offers critical insights into the real world challenges, opportunities, risks and benefits of the ongoing digital transformation of work. We aim to generate new knowledge about the impacts of the transition on employers, workers, job-seekers and governments.Digit is jointly led by the University of Sussex Business School and Leeds University Business School, with Co-Directors Professor Jacqueline O’Reilly (University of Sussex Business School) and Professor Mark Stuart (Leeds University Business School).We also have partners at the universities of Cambridge, Manchester and Monash, the Institute of Development of Studies, the Institute for the Future of Work, and FutureDotNow.

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About the speakerHeather A. Haveman is Professor of Sociology and Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her BA in History and her MBA from the University of Toronto, and her PhD in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations from California’s Haas School of Management. She has been on the faculty at Duke, Cornell and Columbia. She returned to California in 2006.She studies how organisations, industries, and employees’ careers evolve, and the impact of organisations on their employees and society. Her work combines insights from sociology and management studies, as well as computational linguistics, economic geography, law, and social history. This work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and the Socio-Economic Review, among others. She has also published 2 books: Magazines and the Making of America in 2015 and The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory in 2022. Her most recent project relates to on gender issues in the workplace. It involves analysing data from the job-search portal GlassDoor.com to understand how organisational cultures and everyday practices create (or remove) obstacles to gender inequality in the tech sector.

About Digit DebatesThis Spring webinar series from the <a href="https://digit-research.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Digital Futures at Work Research Centre</a> presents cutting-edge research from leading thinkers about how digital technologies are changing work.Our aim is to spark debate, challenge assumptions and become an essential resource for anyone who wants to understand how new technologies will impact employers, employees, job seekers and governments.Join us on 8th, 15th and 29th March 2023. <a href="https://digit-research.org/events/digit-events" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here</a> for more information on other events in the series.

About DigitDigit, the <a href="https://digit-research.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Digital Futures at Work Research Centre</a> aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work, impacting on employers, employees, job seekers and governments. It is co-led by the University of Sussex Business School and Leeds University Business School with partners from Aberdeen, Cambridge, Manchester and Monash Universities. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

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