Men and women in IT entrepreneurship: consolidating and deconstructing gender stereotypes

McDonnell, Martina; Morley, Chantal

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2015.066158

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“…According to a global software developer survey conducted in 2022, men make up the vast majority of developers, accounting for 91.88% of all participants [71]. The reason behind this imbalance can be traced to the presence of stereotypes [12], [31], [47], [68]. Stereotypes and their influence on parental or teacher support limit women's opportunities in academia and industry to pursue a career in software engineering [31].…”

Section: B Gender (Non)diversity In Software Engineeringmentioning

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Draw a Software Engineer Test - An Investigation into Children’s Perceptions of Software Engineering Profession

Cutrupi

Zanardi

Jaccheri

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)

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Context: The gender gap is particularly affecting the software engineering community, as both academia and industry are dominated by men. Literature reports how the lack of women is a consequence of gender stereotypes around certain figures that begin in the early stages of education, affecting children's perceptions of the role they can play across scientific fields.Objective: In this study, we asked children to draw a software engineer in order to collect their perceptions and let us check whether gender stereotypes still persist.Methods: We asked a total of 371 children to draw a person who works in the software engineering field. We analyzed the drawings based on a set of parameters extracted from literature and inspected the results through a cross-sectional study.Results: Children agreed on their representations of a software engineer: 51% drew a man and 44% drew a woman, while 5% a non-recognizable figure. The main differences emerged when the data were grouped by age and gender: only 23% of elevenyear-old girls drew a woman software engineer, while 54% drew a man, and in 23% gender was non-recognizable.Conclusion: The findings revealed a favorable gender balance in children's perceptions of software engineering. They seem more willing to recognize diversity, an improvement compared with what was reported in previous studies. Children's perceptions of technology may have become more accessible as a result of the COVID-19 situation. These findings may draw positive comparisons with the current gender gap in software engineering, encouraging future developments.

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Section: B Gender (Non)diversity In Software Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Draw a Software Engineer Test - An Investigation into Children’s Perceptions of Software Engineering Profession

Cutrupi

Zanardi

Jaccheri

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)

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“…Many scholars try to explain the relatively low entrepreneurial entry rates of women compared to men. Several studies show that the lower likelihood of women becoming entrepreneurs is not explained by a different ability in recognizing opportunities (see e.g., McDonnell & Morley, 2015); indeed, irrespective of the opportunities recognized, women and men have different probabilities of choosing an entrepreneurial career. The literature points out two groups of reasons for the lower probability of women engaging in entrepreneurship.…”

Section: Explanations For the Gender Imbalance In Entrepreneurial Entrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates

Piva

Rovelli

2021

Small Bus Econ

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Women are consistently underrepresented among graduate entrepreneurs. This is especially true among the entrepreneurs who graduate in STEM fields. Here, we aim at identifying factors that reduce/enlarge the gender imbalance in entrepreneurship among STEM graduates. In particular, we explore the underinvestigated association between university education in STEM fields and entrepreneurial entry of recent female and male graduates considering graduates’ whole university curriculum. Our analyses on the graduates who obtained a Master of Science degree in the 2005–2009 period from Politecnico di Milano reveal that training in economics and management reduces the gender imbalance in entrepreneurial entry among STEM recent graduates. The gap is instead larger among the graduates who attended courses that aggregate students from different STEM fields or did an internship.

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“…(Crespi, 2004;Santrock, 1994). Algunas investigaciones más modernas (Bian, Leslie y Cimpian, 2017;McDonnell y Morley;2015) demostraron que los estereotipos de género sobre la capacidad intelectual se desarrollan ya a temprana edad y tienen un fuerte impacto en los intereses de cada infante. Son, precisamente, los estereotipos que indican que los niños son intelectualmente más capaces que las niñas y apartan a las mismas de determinados campos de estudio (por ejemplo, la física, la filosofía, la informática, etc.).…”

Section: Los Estereotipos De Género Y Las Teorías Implícitasunclassified

Postura de practicantes docentes acerca del uso de las TIC y los estereotipos de género en los jardines de infantes

Gavriloski

Vodopivec

2021

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Independientemente de las estipulaciones existentes sobre igualdad de género, debemos ser conscientes de que quienes ejerzan la docencia en el futuro portan sus propios códigos culturales, ya que son producto del sistema del cual proceden. De este modo, crean los más variados estereotipos de género, los cuales pueden, inconscientemente, trasladar a estudiantes de nivel inicial. Nuestro interés en la investigación se centró en averiguar cuáles son las posturas de futuros/as docentes de preescolar en cuanto al uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en el jardín de infantes, en relación a estereotipos de género. Los resultados indican que las personas entrevistadas no tienen ideas rígidas sobre género, pero surge aquí la posibilidad de que se hayan presentado respuestas socialmente aceptables. En relación al uso de las TIC en los jardines, se observa su aceptación como herramienta didáctica, en aquellos casos en que los niños y las niñas expresaran estereotipos de género. Con este artículo, deseamos presentar la posibilidad de existencia de una correlación entre el alfabetismo digital de los futuros maestros y maestras, y el juicio crítico a nivel de contenido en relación con estereotipos de género.

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Men and women in IT entrepreneurship: consolidating and deconstructing gender stereotypes

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

Draw a Software Engineer Test - An Investigation into Children’s Perceptions of Software Engineering Profession

Draw a Software Engineer Test - An Investigation into Children’s Perceptions of Software Engineering Profession

Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates

Postura de practicantes docentes acerca del uso de las TIC y los estereotipos de género en los jardines de infantes

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