From
Outcasts to In-The-Know: Giving Women Credit Where Credit is Due
This chapter focuses
on the scholarship and innovation of intellectual property put forth by women
throughout the history of digital invention. The chapter dissects the feminist
discourse of intellectual property that was spurred on by the research and
writing of Autumn Stanley, Katherine Durack, and other female scholars. Each of
the scholars of rhetoric and composition and technical communication focus on
the different assumptions made about women and how to do away with those
assumptions. In particular, Stanley’s book, Mothers
and Daughters of Invention (1995), led to the framing of a new feminist
critique of women’s relationship to technology and the development. The time
and effort and research put forth by these scholars in the previous decades,
begs for the women of our time to do a similar analysis and comparison of the
impact of women in digital invention today. While I was in the midst of my
analysis, I remembered a website that has been a great resource for building my
résumé and career during my senior year of college. This website, Levo League,
is “a growing community of professional women seeking advice, inspiration, and
the tools needed to succeed”. Levo League has a vision of a future of equality
for women in industry and to create a community of young professionals. Levo
League uses their great and accessible website, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook
and Instagram to share articles about career advice, skills, news, lifestyle,
and fashion. I believe it’s safe to say that, while there will always be some
kind of learning curve when it comes to technology, women have found their
place among the top digital innovators and scholars.
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