id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-3221 Lamont, Melissa Gender, Technology, and Libraries 2009-09-01 6 .pdf application/pdf 4451 237 46 Hargittai and Shafer conducted a study of Internet skills that draws the same conclusion.18 organizational culture Women may underestimate their abilities and disassoci- ate with IT in part because of the perception of IT orga- nizational culture.19 Technical positions are associated with long and irregular hours, leading to the assump- tion that family and home responsibilities will cause women to be less able to contribute. Wilson points to research indicating that “women’s work tends to be regarded as semi-skilled merely because it is women’s work. cache/ital-3221.pdf txt/ital-3221.txt