Title:
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WHAT BRINGS WOMEN INTO EHEALTH?
WOMEN'S CAREER TRAJECTORIES IN DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATIONS IN HEALTHCARE |
Author(s):
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Åsa Cajander, Hilde G. Corneliussen, Gunilla Myreteg and Kari Dyb |
ISBN:
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978-989-8704-18-4 |
Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
Year:
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2020 |
Edition:
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Single |
Keywords:
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Career Trajectories, Digital Transformation, Ehealth, Gender |
Type:
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Full |
First Page:
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71 |
Last Page:
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77 |
Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Digital transformation of health care services is addressed world-wide in order to more efficiently meet the patients
information and health care needs. However, little is known about the people working with this transformation, where two
traditionally gendered fields meet; health care and IT. While work with digitalization generally is dominated by men,
digitalization of health care services involves a large number of women. This case study explores the career trajectories of
women working with the digital transformation of eHealth services. Who are the women in this eHealth project, and how
did they come to working with this digital transformation? The analysis shows different types of trajectories that brought
the women into eHealth transformations: The first illustrating women who were pushed into working with eHealth by their
job descriptions, the second showing women using eHealth as an escape route from something else, and the last trajectory
showing how women stumbled across eHealth and decided to stay on. This has implications for the educational system,
and points to the need for being able to study computer science later in life. It also calls for a better understanding of what
drives women in transformation processes. |
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