2019
DOI: 10.3390/info10100309
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Barriers Faced by Women in Software Development Projects

Abstract: Computer science is a predominantly male field of study. Women face barriers while trying to insert themselves in the study of computer science. Those barriers extend to when women are exposed to the professional area of computer science. Despite decades of social fights for gender equity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and in computer science in general, few women participate in computer science, and some of the reasons include gender bias and lack of support for women wh… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
4
1

Citation Types

0
20
0
3

Year Published

2021
2021
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
5
2

Relationship

0
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 36 publications
(23 citation statements)
references
References 40 publications
0
20
0
3
Order By: Relevance
“…Furthermore, they stated that the reason for this under-representation may be associated with women’s workplace conditions, which may support men’s gender bias. Our SLR expands Canedo et al’s SLR ( 2019 ) because it focuses not only on women and OSS but on five perceived diversity dimensions in OSS and industry.…”
Section: Background and Related Workmentioning
confidence: 97%
See 3 more Smart Citations
“…Furthermore, they stated that the reason for this under-representation may be associated with women’s workplace conditions, which may support men’s gender bias. Our SLR expands Canedo et al’s SLR ( 2019 ) because it focuses not only on women and OSS but on five perceived diversity dimensions in OSS and industry.…”
Section: Background and Related Workmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Canedo et al ( 2019 ) conducted a systematic literature review in the context of Open Source Software (OSS) communities. Their study analyzed 24 papers intending to find factors that could help increase the engagement of women to contribute to OSS.…”
Section: Background and Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 2 more Smart Citations
“…Among the productive chains that most demand services are that of IT. These services have been mapped between the three sectors most interested in 11 of the 15 emerging professions, i.e., IT and services [17]; software for computers [18] and financial services [19]. The Internet and computer software segments also appear as the main contractors for 11 rising careers.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%