Though gender equality is well institutionalized in Nordic Countries and ranks high in United Nations’ index, both horizontal and vertical gender segregations are high in labour market, especially in sectoral distribution of labour-force and in jobs within the field of information and communication technology. In neo-liberal knowledge economies, linear “careers” are not the most desirable model to fulfil human potential. Career-building in larger degree involves boundary crossings in sectors as well geographical borders. The neoliberal political economy has impact on women’s mobility in the labour market and the ways in which gender equality policies take place. Relying on feminist scholars’ contribution to the theories of network, and neoliberal knowledge economy, in this article we investigate the patterns of sectoral and geographical mobility among women in ICT-related careers. The paper is based on a qualitative research on women’s career building in ICT related works in rural area and sparsely populated regions in public sector, industry and academy in Norway and Sweden. We have interviewed 45 women where they got opportunity to narrate their life and career histories.

Nina Algren (PhD) is a researcher and gender equality specialist at Uppsala University. Almgren’s research interests are in gender, organization and technology.
Minna Salminen Karlsson (PhD) is a lecturer in Sociology and a researcher at the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University. Her areas of research are gender in technology education, and gender in high-tech organizations.
Hilde G. Corneliussen has Dr.art in Humanistic Informatics and is a senior researcher in Technology and Society at Western Norway Research Institute (WNRI). Her expertise is on gender equality in STEM.
Gilda Seddighi has a PhD from Department for Information Science and Media Studies and affiliated with the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research from University of Bergen. She works as a senior researcher at WNRI.
Carol Azungi Dralega (PhD) is an Associate Professor at NLA University College, Norway. She is interested in ICT and empowerment in relation to marginalization and e-Inclusion.

Minna Salminen Karlsson , Researcher, Uppsala University, minna.salminen@gender.uu.se
Nina Algren, Researcher, Uppsala University, nina.almgren@uadm.uu.se
Hilde G. Corneliussen, Researcher, Western Norway Research Institute, hgc@vestforsk.no
Carol A. Dralega, Associate professor, NLA University College, Carol.Dralega@nla.no