性别的技术政治--中印“程序媛”的数字劳动比较研究

The Technopolitics of Gender:An Comparative Study of IT Programmers between China and India

通过对比中印两国女性技术人员的工作实践,文章探究了信息技术产业领域的性别技术政治。信息技术具有社会文化和劳动政治的双重属性。通过对比中国和印度两国女性的IT工作实践,文章试图展现性别议题在全球化和城镇化框架下如何被定义、重塑和改变。由于中印两国在技术领域所展现的差异化的劳动控制和父权机制,女性程序员面临着截然不同的工作实践和生活命运。此种跨国界的技术生产对比,有助于我们将现今“性别—技术”关系的视角,重新纳入中国信息产业和数字社会发展的潮汐脉络之中。

By comparing the work practices of female technicians in China and India,the current article explores the gender-technological politics in the information technology industry.It implies that IT has the dual attributes of social culture and labor politics.Based on fieldwork data collected in China and India,the article attempts to show how gender issues are defined,reshaped and changed under the framework of globalization and urbanization.Due to the differentiated labor control and patriarchal mechanisms in the technical field between China and India,female programmers are facing completely different work practices and life destinies.The cross-border comparison in IT helps us reintegrate the“gender-technology”perspective into the tide China's continuing digital society.