TY - GEN
T1 - Cross-culturel influences on women in the IT workforce
AU - Trauth, Eileen M.
AU - Quesenberry, Jeria L.
AU - Huang, Haiyan
PY - 2006/7/17
Y1 - 2006/7/17
N2 - A review of 862 papers published in SIGMIS/CPR proceedings over the past 44 years revealed only 29 articles that focused on gender and the IT workforce or gender and IT education, the majority of which were presented at the 2003 conference whose theme was diversity in the IT workforce. Therefore, in response to the call for papers to extend our understanding of topics central to computer personnel research, we present data from our field study of gender and IT that is directed at understanding differing cross-cultural influences on female experiences in the IT workforce. Four themes emerged from analysis of data from four separate studies of women in the IT workforces in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States: motherhood and careers, career choice, family dynamics and gender stereotypes. Analysis of interviews with 167 women reveals a wide range of influences on women's choice of an IT career. These results lend empirical support to the individual differences theory of gender and IT as an alternative to essentialist or social construction theories.
AB - A review of 862 papers published in SIGMIS/CPR proceedings over the past 44 years revealed only 29 articles that focused on gender and the IT workforce or gender and IT education, the majority of which were presented at the 2003 conference whose theme was diversity in the IT workforce. Therefore, in response to the call for papers to extend our understanding of topics central to computer personnel research, we present data from our field study of gender and IT that is directed at understanding differing cross-cultural influences on female experiences in the IT workforce. Four themes emerged from analysis of data from four separate studies of women in the IT workforces in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States: motherhood and careers, career choice, family dynamics and gender stereotypes. Analysis of interviews with 167 women reveals a wide range of influences on women's choice of an IT career. These results lend empirical support to the individual differences theory of gender and IT as an alternative to essentialist or social construction theories.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33745810954&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=33745810954&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33745810954
SN - 1595933492
SN - 9781595933492
T3 - SIGMIS CPR'06 - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference
SP - 12
EP - 19
BT - SIGMIS CPR'06 - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference - Forty Four Years of Computer Personnel Research
T2 - SIGMIS CPR'06 - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference
Y2 - 13 April 2006 through 15 April 2006
ER -