Disrupting the Default: Perspectives on Gender, Power, and Emergent Technology
Editors: Christine Haskell, Catharyn Baird, and Randal Joy Thompson
Full Details and Form:
https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/newsletter/call-for-abstracts-disrupting-the-default-perspectives-on-gender-power-and-emergent-technology/
Please submit your proposed chapter title, abstract (up to 500 words) and a short bio (75 words) by 31 August 2025, to Christine Haskell via the linked form. Please include your full name and institutional or organizational affiliation.
Invitation to Submit
We invite women engaged in all aspects of AI — design, deployment, critique, research, governance, and use — to submit a 500-word chapter abstract for our forthcoming volume. This book will spark vital conversations about the theories, possibilities, and problems AI poses for society — and for women in particular — while interrogating the gender gaps in adoption and leadership, and exploring how women leaders are overcoming them.
We encourage submissions from technologists, policymakers, nonprofit leaders, educators, entrepreneurs, students, and scholars. Whether you work in a tech lab, a boardroom, or a community hub, your lived experience and your vision for ethical AI leadership are essential to this conversation. We especially welcome chapters that go beyond critique to offer replicable practices, frameworks, or policies for inclusive leadership in AI design, governance, hiring, product development, and public engagement.
Although AI is the primary focus of this volume, we also welcome proposals that explore intersections with related emerging technologies, such as biometric surveillance, neurotech, data governance platforms, and blockchain, where ethical, equity, and leadership challenges often mirror AI’s.
We particularly seek chapters that present practical solutions, critical insights, or promising practices to ensure AI supports, rather than supplants, women and humanity overall. We welcome contributions from those designing AI, applying it in organizations, studying its impacts, critiquing its development, or conducting interviews with women leading in AI. Submissions from women of diverse racial, ethnic, geographic, LGBTQ+, and disciplinary backgrounds are highly encouraged, as we aim to reflect a wide spectrum of experiences.
This volume extends the mission of the Women and Leadership series by situating women’s leadership at the forefront of technological change. AI is not just a tool. It is a powerful force reshaping economies, labor, governance, and culture. Women’s leadership must be equally powerful, moving beyond critique to the co-creation of ethical, inclusive, and accountable systems. This book positions women as agents of that change.
We urge contributors to be bold and imaginative. This is a platform not only to analyze and critique, but to chart new possibilities for women’s leadership in AI. Together, we aim to produce a cutting-edge dialogue that informs practitioners, inspires emerging leaders, and challenges the tech industry to evolve.
Requested Submissions and Book Production Timeline
31 August 2025: Abstracts due
30 October 2025: Selection notifications
28 February 2026: Draft chapters due (5,000 words, excl. references)
28 February – 15 May 2026: Peer/editorial review
15 May 2026: Feedback provided
15 June 2026: Final revisions due
July–December 2026: Production
30 January 2027: Publication