Women in IT in the New Social Era: A Critical Evidence-Based Review of Gender Inequality and the Potential for Change

Women in IT in the New Social Era: A Critical Evidence-Based Review of Gender Inequality and the Potential for Change

Sonja Bernhardt

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 274

ISBN13: 9781466658608|ISBN10: 1466658606|EISBN13: 9781466658615

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5860-8

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Bernhardt, Sonja. Women in IT in the New Social Era: A Critical Evidence-Based Review of Gender Inequality and the Potential for Change. IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5860-8

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Bernhardt, S. (2014). Women in IT in the New Social Era: A Critical Evidence-Based Review of Gender Inequality and the Potential for Change. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5860-8

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Bernhardt, Sonja. Women in IT in the New Social Era: A Critical Evidence-Based Review of Gender Inequality and the Potential for Change. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5860-8

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Research and statistics support the view that current programs are failing to keep women in the ICT field. Currently, there exist very few solutions to this growing problem.

Women in IT in the New Social Era: A Critical Evidence-Based Review of Gender Inequality and the Potential for Change aims to bring this topic to the forefront of discussion about what can be done to correct this lopsided gender distribution. This reference work will be an essential guide for government professionals, students, and researchers in the ICT field looking to develop a solution to equalize the retention rate of women in these related fields.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT) Book Series

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

Women in IT: Background (pages 1-12)

The historical context of women in technology is introduced through individual and collective tales of notable women in the field, from Hypatia of Alexandria through to World War II Code Breakers. The lives of these women show that...

Chapter 2

A New Approach (pages 13-41)

We are in new times that call for new ways of thinking. Digital disruption is almost the norm, and the power of social media has shaken governments. The emergence of this new disruptive Social Era demands a new model for framing the...

Chapter 3

The Old Approach (pages 42-69)

For decades, governments, associations, and individuals have enthusiastically jumped to “solve the women in IT issue” with a variety of intervention programs aimed at increasing recruitment and retention of women in IT. But beyond a...

Chapter 4

Popular Theories (pages 70-96)

The issue of women in IT has attracted voluminous research with many theories framing discussions, such as Essentialist Theory, Social Construction Theory, Individual Differences Theory, Structuration Theory, Theory of Reasoned...

Chapter 5

Cultural and Social Contexts and Influencing Factors (pages 97-126)

The first two layers of the STEMcell Model are detailed in this chapter: the cultural and social contexts and their influencing factors. These are largely identified in the voluminous preceding research. Key cultural influencing...

Chapter 6

Structural Context and Influencing Factors (pages 127-157)

Structural context and influencing factors form another layer of the STEMcell Model, interacting with the cultural and social contexts and the individual core. Key structural factors identified in the literature are industry...

Chapter 7

Individual Context (pages 158-176)

The core principle derived from evaluation of the data is that the number of women in IT (or any career) is not a matter of the balance of societal forces, which we can push one way or another with the right lever. It comes down to...

Chapter 8

#SocialIT (pages 177-199)

The #SocialIT layer of the STEMcell Model is visualized as a layer surrounding and penetrating the other layers to interact directly with the individual core. It represents the seismic transformations where technology underpins and...

Chapter 9

Differences: Industries and Ethnicity (pages 200-224)

Experiences in other industries and cultures are compared to put the issue of women in IT into a broader perspective in this chapter. The issues of low and declining participation of women are not unique to IT: similar patterns...

Chapter 10

Conclusions and Recommendations (pages 225-245)

The focus of this chapter is recommendations. Overall and individual chapter conclusions are summarized; then 3 overarching and 35 detailed recommendations are presented of relevance to all stakeholders from governments to theorists...

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