The Delft Group
"An International group of women developing a feminist perspective on new technology ." The above group held its first international conference on women's employment and new technology in Delft, Holland. It was decided to publish a newsletter 4 times a year and the group hopes to continue meeting once a year. Further information:
Wies Arts, Malakkastraat 8, 2585 SN Den Haag, Netherlands.
The first issue of the above newsletter - entitled FEMTECH - has recently been published by the Danish members of the group. It consists of 12 pages and contains news about Denmark, Sweden and UK. Further information: Janins Morgall, Bornholmsgade 1, III.DK 1266 Copenhagen K., Denmark. The next issue will be edited in England. Contact: Anne Lloyd, 76A Mount Ararat Road, Richmond, Surrey TW106PN
National Women's Mailing List
The goal of this organization is to use computer technology to support the efforts of women's projects throughout the U.S. A.
For further information write Women's Information Exchange, 1195 Valencia St., San Francisco, California 94110 USA.
Women and Computing Newsletter c/o A Woman's Place 48 William IV Street , London WC2 England.
A quarterly brief newsletter of this recently established group. The group came together to provide a forum of mutual support, to expose the discrimination against women in the computer industry, to give practical help to women wishing to learn about computers and how to use them, and to bring a feminist perspective to the debate about the social implications of the new technology. The newsletter is a forum of the group, but includes much of interest to other women concerned with new technology.
The New Technology Work Group
The New Technology Work Group is a group of feminist academics who are working together to produce a pamphlet for working women on the possible effects of microelectronic technology on women's employment. The group members' concern with these issues are a result of diverse experiences. Some of us are now full-time graduate students who were previously clerical workers and secretaries. Two members teach secretarial skills and women's studies in high school and are currently writing curriculum for their courses. Two others are college instructors, one in labour studies and another in women's studies.
We have already conducted interviews and discussions with many clerical workers and are currently setting up contacts with union researchers, members and executives. We want to keep in touch with their research and resources in this area, and share our own. When we have completed a rough draft of the pamphlet we'll want to get feedback from the contacts we've made. Through this process we hope to be able to integrate the analytical, research and writing skills of our academic training, with the knowledge, experience and insight of clerical workers and unionists for whom the pamphlet is intended.
For further information write The New Technology Working Group, c/o Ingrid Wellmeier, Dept of Sociology, OlSE, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada.