Ashwin publishes paper on the gendering of emergent technology

A new paper co-written by CGHR Postdoctoral Scholar, Ashwin Varghese, and Aishwarya Rajeev, has been published in The Economic and Labour Relations Review. The paper considers how the proliferation of assistive technologies is innately shaped by underlying gender relations.

In Gender, work, and the anthropomorphisation of technology, CGHR Postdoctoral Scholar, Ashwin Varghese, and Aishwarya Rajeev unpack the tendency to ascribe a feminine identity to assistive technology. Drawing from real-world applications and chatbots in the service industry in India, they argue that the gendering of emergent assistive technology is performative and relational, and co-constituted by the sexual division of labour and gendered norms of work.