Information technology and the gender factor

Ahuja, Manju K.

doi:10.1145/212490.212595

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“…Figure 2 represents the responses of all participants who identified themselves as males. 3 In comparison to Figure 1, we begin to notice a shift between "soft" IT skills, such as communication skills and customer relationship skills, and "hard" IT skills, such as programming skills and networking skills. The skills that men describe as masculine are a representation of typical stereotyping of males as more inclined to be skilled in business knowledge and skills that are perceived to require in-depth thought.…”

Section: Table 2 Respondent Numbers By Gender / Ethnicity Categorymentioning

confidence: 78%

“…However, as noted, there is a disconnect with respect to creativity and innovation. Men placed creativity into the feminine category even though c 3 reativity is necessary to spur innovation, many of which 3 Respondents who identified as transgender were excluded from this analysis as were those who declined to indicate their traits are categorized as masculine. Reflecting the fact that males outnumber females in our survey by a ratio of nearly two to one, the Male Overall diagram represents a stark contrast to the Overall diagram in Figure 1 with respect to the movement of skills from feminine and gender neutral to masculine.…”

Section: Table 2 Respondent Numbers By Gender / Ethnicity Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nielsen et al [64] Which cultural factors in Australia encourage female Asian students to pursue careers in IT. Ahuja [3] Barriers women face to entering the IT field with respect to three separate life stages. Igbaria and Chidambaram [40] How women and men in the IS workforce were differentiated in terms of commitment, satisfaction, and a desire to remain in the field.…”

Section: Appendix Gender Research At Cpr Conferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Embracing intersectionality in gender and IT career choice research

Trauth

Cain

Joshi

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Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference on Computers and People Research

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Results of an examination of with-gender variation in gender stereotypes about the skills and knowledge in the IT profession demonstrates the value of applying an intersectionality perspective in the study of under represented groups in the IT field. Focusing on gender or ethnicity, alone, is insufficient to explain the under representation of women and minorities in IT careers. Rather, we believe that stratifying the population in a more nuanced manner, such as by gender within ethnic group, provides deeper insights into the phenomenon of under representation. Hence, this research approaches the topic of gender and the IT profession from the perspective of intersectionality of gender and ethnicity. Within-gender analysis reveals variation in gender stereotyping by gender-ethnic group. White females and minority males (i.e. Black and Hispanic males) exhibited the most masculine stereotyping of IT skills. In contrast, White males and minority females (i.e. Black and Hispanic females) exhibited the fewest. Three themes emerge from this research. First, the skills that will be increasingly important in the future in distinguishing equivalently credentialed IT professionals were not absorbed into the "masculine" category. Second, hegemonic masculine traits appear to be deeply entrenched in the next generation of IT professionals. Third, when peering more deeply into the gender stereotyping of skills by respondent demographics, what emerges is a pattern that emphasizes the critical role of intersectionality in gender analyses of the IT profession.

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Section: Table 2 Respondent Numbers By Gender / Ethnicity Categorymentioning

confidence: 78%

Section: Table 2 Respondent Numbers By Gender / Ethnicity Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Appendix Gender Research At Cpr Conferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Embracing intersectionality in gender and IT career choice research

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Cain

Joshi

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Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference on Computers and People Research

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“…Some institutions have been more successful than others in achieving gender equity, as the recent Carnegie Mellon study shows for the field of computer science (Margolis & Fisher 2002). Factors such as the availability of role models, mentoring, networking, curriculum, advising, and financial and administrative support have all been identified as making a positive difference in female students' experiences in computer science programs (Ahuja, 2002;Spertus 1991). We propose that this will be the case in applied IT programs as well.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring antecedents of gender equitable outcomes in IT higher education

Robinson¹,

Herring²,

Ogan³

2004

Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS Conference on Computer Personnel Research: Careers, Culture, and Ethics in a Networked Environme

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This research-in-progress paper reports on a National Science Foundation funded project aimed at examining ways to engage women and girls in courses of study that will qualify and motivate them for information technology (IT)-related careers. This Information Technology Work Force (ITWF) award provides support to investigate 15 tertiary education programs in information systems, information science, instructional systems technology, and informatics, with computer science programs as a baseline comparison, in five major IT degree-granting institutions. The purpose of the study is to systematically investigate the contribution of organizational culture to student experiences and outcomes, determining factors that favor female success over time.The programs are hypothesized to be differentially responsive to female students due to differences in academic culture, operationalized in terms of the availability of mentorship, role models, peer support networks, grant programs, and other resources at the departmental, university, and disciplinary levels. These measures of organizational culture will be correlated with measures of student outcomes and self-reports of student experiences. Data about students' experiences will be collected through a web-based survey of a sample of 5,000 students, followed by three face-to-face interviews with an estimated 155 students, over-sampling for females, over a two-year period. In addition, faculty, administrators and staff in the study programs will be interviewed by telephone and in person. Student survey data will be collected by April 2004 and analyzed by May 2004.At the conference, we will report preliminary findings based on analysis of data collected from our pilot site (Indiana University).The project will identify encouraging and discouraging factors, and produce comparative statistics, that can be used as a baseline in future research on IT education and gender. Findings can be used to inform programmatic recommendations aimed at moving more women into the IT pipeline through a diverse range of educational programs. To the extent that new IT paradigms such as are taught in schools of information, informatics, education, and business help to create those cultural associations, they can contribute to reducing the persistent gender segregation in academic IT-related programs and thus IT employment.

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“…The current literature is populated by studies that capture the image of the computer science profession [e.g., 7,1,4,8,16]. These studies focus on capturing the perceptions of people majoring in computer science or working in CS related fields.…”

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confidence: 99%

Is the information systems profession gendered?

Joshi

Schmidt

Kuhn

2003

Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS Conference on Computer Personnel Research: Freedom in Philadelphia--Leveraging Differences and D

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In spite of a more "feminine" nature of the IS discipline due to its greater perceived social component, stereotypes and educational prejudices that are prevalent in the computer science discipline are assumed to exist in the information systems field. The objective of this study was to test the validity of this assumption by uncovering the perceptions of potential IS professionals, i.e., college students, toward IS professionals and the IS profession. Our study reveals that stereotypes found to be associated with computer science also seem to permeate the IS field. These stereotypic images do not fade away even after the students are more informed about IS careers. However, it does not fully support the assumption that women believe the field of information systems is identical to computer science. When describing an IS professional and the IS profession, women were cognizant about the unique nature of the IS field, i.e., the IS profession is a blend of technical, systems, social, and managerial components.

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Information technology and the gender factor

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Embracing intersectionality in gender and IT career choice research

Embracing intersectionality in gender and IT career choice research

Exploring antecedents of gender equitable outcomes in IT higher education

Is the information systems profession gendered?

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