Sanz’s project is rooted in Feminist Constructivist Studies of Technology which understand both gender and information technologies (IT) as co-constructed through social relations and particular contexts. Her project relies on previous research she performed for her dissertation thesis, which has consisted of developing an analytical framework to study the relation between gender and IT based on the three levels of the gender system defined by Harding (structure, symbolism and identity). She has focused on examples of software design using the concept/tool of “Gender Script.” Gender scripts are the designer’s representations of users that are incorporated through the design phase into the resulting IT developments, which “guides” to some extent the gender meanings of the artefact, its gender-related identity performances and the gendered structure of IT work and use.

The aim of her project is to turn to an aspect of IT that has not been much analyzed in previous researches: the fundamentals and foundations of the discipline of Computer Science from a gender perspective. This means studying the epistemological and ontological assumptions of the discipline, since particular IT “products” are built upon already existing technologies within this tradition, so they “inherit” the inscribed characteristics of the previous theories and methods.