Gender, availability and dual emancipation in the Swedish ICT sector
研究揭示瑞典一家全球ICT咨询公司的正式性别平等目标如何因竞争性需求而受阻，女性因家庭责任选择低可用性角色，导致职业发展受限，与公司及政府双重解放目标相悖。
Set in the context of the Swedish state’s agenda of dual emancipation for women and men, the article shows how a global ICT consultancy company’s formal gender equality goal is undermined by competing demands. Employing the concept of availability, in preference to work–life balance, the research found women opted out of roles requiring high degrees of spatial and temporal availability for work, in favour of roles more easily combined with family responsibilities. Such choices led to poor career development, plus the loss of technological expertise and confidence. These outcomes were at odds with the company’s gender equality aims, as well as government objectives to make it easier for women and men to combine work and family, and increase the number of women within ICT.