Programming in the workplace: performance and power

技术缺乏多样性已经不是什么秘密。近年来，公众的注意力已经被吸引到这样一个事实，即谷歌，Facebook和微软等公司“由白色和亚洲男性主导”（Murgia，2019）。这一点的影响是深远的，在线系统反映了构建它们的程序员的价值观和偏见。然而，尽管人们对技术更加多样化的需求做了很多工作，但相对而言，很少有人关注程序员在工作场所的不平等日常经历。借鉴欧文·戈夫曼（Erving Goffman）和皮埃尔·布迪厄（Pierre Bourdieu）的理论工作，我计划完成一项定性研究，调查科技工作场所是否以及如何更适合某些人。如果我们不希望技术复制和加强现有的不平等秩序，这项研究就很重要。

The lack of diversity in tech is no secret. In recent years, public attention has been drawn to the fact that companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are 'dominated by white and Asian men' (Murgia, 2019). The implications of this are far-reaching, with online systems reflecting the values and biases of the programmers that build them. However, while much has been made of the need to make tech more diverse, comparatively little attention has been paid toprogrammers' everyday experiences of inequality in the workplace. Drawing on the theoretical work of Erving Goffman and Pierre Bourdieu, I plan to complete a qualitative study investigating whether, and how, the tech workplace is better suited to some than others. This research is important if we do not want technology to reproduce and reinforce existing orders of inequality.