Nye's discussion of how gender roles were defined by technology actually rings very true for me. The only person in my family to go to college was my grandmother, who holds a degree in home economics. For most of her life, she has not done much career-wise with it, but still owns most of the appliances that she bought in the 60s and 70s because she cares for them extremely well. My grandfather only had a high school diploma but drove a tank in the Marines, then worked for Western Union and MCI. It was never really clear what he did for a living, but it had something to do with making sure the phone system worked. How they lead their lives fits right into this gender paradigm: men's job is to create the technology that improves lives, and women's job is to put it to work improving lives. -Sean B.

Nye's discussion of how gender roles were defined by technology actually rings very true for me. The only person in my family to go to college was my grandmother, who holds a degree in home economics. For most of her life, she has not done much career-wise with it, but still owns most of the appliances that she bought in the 60s and 70s because she cares for them extremely well. My grandfather only had a high school diploma but drove a tank in the Marines, then worked for Western Union and MCI. It was never really clear what he did for a living, but it had something to do with making sure the phone system worked. How they lead their lives fits right into this gender paradigm: men's job is to create the technology that improves lives, and women's job is to put it to work improving lives. -Sean B.