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Synthesizing an organization's computing infrastructure to support the spectrum of tasks performed by users in a geographically distributed organization.T he alignment of an organization's infor-more complex scenarios, we encounter partitioning mation technology to its business of databases and application programs, data migrastrategies is a recurrent theme in IS tion, multiphase database updates, and so forth. The research [1], and has featured promi-common thread in these scenarios is the use of coopnently in recent surveys of critical issues erative computing to accomplish a single task, for IS management [2]. Current corporate downsiz-The rapid growth of cooperative computing ing trends have had the effect of flattening organiza-throughout the 1990s has transformed the IS functions' structures. A transformation of information tion and its management in many organizations, systems has accompanied this organizational flatten-The characteristics of this transformation frequently ing. Several different architectures have evolved dur-include a downsizing of systems away from maining the transition from the monolithic centralized frame environments to smaller hardware platforms, systems of the past to the decentralized, distributed, coupled with network-based approaches to informaclient/server, and network-based computing archi-tion management. In other cases, there has been a tectures of the present. Despite their differences, growth in the size and sophistication of end-usermany of these architectures share an important developed systems, or the "upscaling" of departmenproperty-allocation of processing tasks and/or data tai or LAN-based computing, with LANs becoming across multiple computing platforms. In simple the repositories for mission-critical corporate data, cases this might involve storing data or applications Computing problems that once were assigned to on a LAN server and retrieving them using a PC. In mainframe computers are now routinely assigned to

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This paper investigates trends and changes in the gender earnings gap for individuals employed in clerical and professional level information systems positions in the U.S. labor market for the period of 1991 through 2008. It examines changes in the earnings gap for IS workers, specifically considering changes relative to the so-called “Internet bubble” observed primarily during the late 1990s. Quantitative analysis of changes in the wage gap, adjusted for key determinants, is based on data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). Examination of these data suggests that the gender earnings gap is persistent despite frequent claims to the contrary from industry surveys and that the gap is narrower for professional level positions. Furthermore, the data suggest that female IS workers, particularly in professional level occupations, may have experienced a beneficial effect from the internet bubble, but it is unclear whether or not that beneficial effect may be fading in the post-bubble internet bust of the early 21st century.

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