Millar's analysis on "Wired" magazine

Women's Past In Technology

In the past, women have been excluded from the entire science and technology field. Historically, women's technology has been destroyed. For example, women healers were seen as witches. These witches were burnt at the stake for practising something that was considered a science to them at the time but the devil's work to everyone else. Miller argues that this was done to protect the rapidly growing medical establishment that only involved men. Another example of women's exclusion would be the Industrial revolution. This revolution created a model of gender relations where women and children were almost excluded. This was the cause of women's unpaid labour (household work) being disregarded and women were also seen as secondary or occasional workers who could be paid less for the same work. Although women are a part of science and technology today, women still devote their time to unpaid labour and in most fields don't earn as much as men. Through her findings, Millar points out that the digital discourse of "Wired" magazine "repackages" power relations of the past into an appreciative package for today.

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