Judy Wajcman
Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
I am the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. My work has broadly been within the area of the sociology of technology, work and employment, and I’ve been particularly interested in how gender relations are embedded in these fields.
EXPs by Judy Wajcman
The technologies in themselves are not the driver of social change. If anything, technologies reflect the values and the relations of the society we’re in, the inequalities of all the features of society we find in those very technologies.
This notion of masculinity being associated with scientific, technical, industrial work had a long history. One of the main things I’ve been concerned with during my career has been the extent to which these inequalities and differences in where women and men work actually affect and shape the kinds of technology we get.
The future that I would very much like is to see technology being used to augment human labour, for people and machines to work together rather than thinking of people and machines as somehow in opposition.