📢Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence and Women"

📅 Important Dates

✅ Final Manuscript Submission Deadline: January 2026
✅ Special Issue Publication Deadline: August 2026

The KADEM Journal of Women’s Studies welcomes submissions from academics and researchers for its upcoming 2026 special issue on "Artificial Intelligence and Women." This issue seeks original articles that contribute to the scholarly discourse on the intersection of artificial intelligence and gender. This special issue aims to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on gender dynamics through an interdisciplinary approach. Topics of particular interest include how artificial intelligence reproduces gender biases, how digital technologies transform gender roles, and how these transformations affect women's social, economic, and political positions. This special issue aims to provide a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence shapes gender relations, offering a broad, interdisciplinary perspective while making a meaningful contribution to the academic discourse in this field. Submissions that offer both critical perspectives and solution-oriented approaches are encouraged. Analyses that explore AI's potential to promote gender equality, as well as its risks of reproducing gender discrimination, are within the scope of this special issue. This call encourages interdisciplinary approaches and welcomes theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies not only from social sciences but also from technical disciplines. Contributions from fields such as digital sociology, ethics, political science, feminist theory, and technology studies are invited to comprehensively discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on gender dynamics.

Suggested Topics

• Artificial Intelligence from a Feminist Perspective: AI technologies within the context of feminist theories, AI design from a feminist epistemology perspective.
• Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence: Gender biases in algorithms, their social impacts, and bias mitigation techniques.
• AI Ethics and Gender: Gender sensitivity in data collection processes, ethical AI applications, risks of either reducing or reinforcing gender discrimination.
• Gender and Data Ethics: Gender representation in datasets, ethical AI applications.
• Technology Access and Digital Inequalities: Women's access to technology in the context of AI and the digital world, the digital divide and its economic effects, digital integration in rural areas.
• AI in Education and Gender Equality: Representation of women in STEM fields, gender bias in AI-supported educational platforms.
  
• AI and Women’s Employment: AI’s role in sectoral representation and employment opportunities for women, gender equality in the workforce.
  
• Automation and Women’s Labor: The transformative potential of AI-driven automation on women's labor, AI use in domestic work, and its impact on gender roles.
  
• Women Leaders and Artificial Intelligence: The role of female leaders in AI policies, gender-equality-focused policy development.
• Women and Digital Activism: AI-supported feminist movements, the impact of social media algorithms on feminist activism, digital feminist solidarity networks.
• AI in Combating Gender-Based Violence: AI-based digital violence detection algorithms, AI-powered support and assistance applications.
  
  

💡 We welcome your contributions to this call, which supports interdisciplinary approaches!

📄 Submission Languages: English or Turkish
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📩 makale@kadinarastirmalari.com