Barriers to gender diversity in software development education

Borsotti, Valeria

doi:10.1145/3183377.3183390

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“…For example, Cheryan et al [3] and Master et al [17] investigated gender stereotypes related to computing and uncovered that these act as "gatekeepers" preventing women from choosing CS studies. Similarly, Borsotti [2] has investigated barriers for gender diversity in Software Development Education. She empirically investigates the main barriers for female participation in CS programs and discusses insights and interventions.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Diversity in Introductory Programming Classes: An Experience Report

Groher

Vierhauser

Sabitzer

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET)

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Digitization is becoming part of almost everyone's life, ranging from smartphones and tablets, smart devices automatically collecting information, to tools and scripting languages that are widely available and easy to use. This has recently been reflected in various university curricula, where courses such as computational thinking, and basic programming classes are now included in a broader range of (non-computer-science) programs. However, these programs often face challenges in such courses due to their diverse student body, with students often lacking profound digital competencies and technical background. While gender diversity aspects have been broadly studied in the past, other diversity dimensions such as ethnicity, age, or educational background have largely been neglected thus far. In this paper, we report on our experiences in teaching an introductory programming course to first-year Business Informatics bachelor students. After undergoing fundamental changes in our teaching concepts and the provided learning material, we explore what diversity factors play an important role when teaching programming to non-computer science students, and how diversity is perceived by lecturers and tutors. Our analysis confirms that a collaborative teaching concept positively supports female students and students with language barriers. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics → Computer science education; • Applied computing → E-learning.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Diversity in Introductory Programming Classes: An Experience Report

Groher

Vierhauser

Sabitzer

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET)

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“…Some respondents suggest that the underrepresentation of women in OSS communities might be due to the low number of women attending undergraduate courses in Computer Science and related subjects. Nonetheless, the percentage of women attending these courses tends to be 10-20% Olmedo-Torre et al [2018], Christie et al [2017], Rheingans et al [2018], Borsotti [2018], while the participation of women in OSS is ca. 5% Lee and Carver [2019], Overflow [2019], Vasilescu et al [2015].…”

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Work Practices and Perceptions from Women Core Developers in OSS Communities

Canedo¹,

Bonifácio²,

Okimoto³

et al. 2020

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Background. The effect of gender diversity in open source communities has gained increasing attention from practitioners and researchers. For instance, organizations such as the Python Software Foundation and the OpenStack Foundation started actions to increase gender diversity and promote women to top positions in the communities. Problem. Although the general underrepresentation of women (a.k.a. horizontal segregation) in open source communities has been explored in a number of research studies, little is known about the vertical segregation in open source communities-which occurs when there are fewer women in high level positions. Aims. To address this research gap, in this paper we present the results of a mixed-methods study on gender diversity and work practices of core developers contributing to open-source communities. Method. In the first study, we used miningsoftware repositories procedures to identify the core developers of 711 open source projects, in order to understand how common are women core developers in open source communities and characterize their work practices. In the second study, we surveyed the women core developers we identified in the first study to collect their perceptions of gender diversity and gender bias they might have observed while contributing to open source systems. Results. Our findings show that open source communities present both horizontal and vertical segregation (only 2.3% of the core developers are women). Nevertheless, differently from previous studies, most of the women core developers (65.7%) report never having experienced gender discrimination when contributing to an open source project. Finally, we did not note substantial differences between the work practices among women and men core developers. Conclusions. We reflect on these findings and present some ideas that might increase the participation of women in open source communities.

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“…"Barriers to Gender Diversity in Software Development Education: Actionable Insights from a Danish Case Study," by Valeria Bosotti, reports on an exploratory case study at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). 1 Bosotti interviewed 38 undergraduate or high-school students and surveyed 395 undergraduate or high-school students to investigate the main sociocultural barriers to female participation in ITU's Bachelor of Software Development program. The most influential factors were students' perceptions of stereotypes and role models, their attitudes and behavior regarding software development education, and gender differences in preuniversity coding skills.…”

Section: Gender Diversity In Software Engineering Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Sentiment and Emotions, and Safety-Critical Systems

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THIS ISSUE'S ARTICLE reports from the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 18) and the 17th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR 18). The ICSE papers focus on sociotechnical issues related to gender and sentiment or emotion. The ICSR paper focuses on safety-critical systems. Feedback or suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices described in the article, please send Jeffrey Carver and the paper authors a note about your experiences.

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Barriers to gender diversity in software development education

Cited by 25 publications

References 13 publications

Exploring Diversity in Introductory Programming Classes: An Experience Report

Exploring Diversity in Introductory Programming Classes: An Experience Report

Work Practices and Perceptions from Women Core Developers in OSS Communities

Gender, Sentiment and Emotions, and Safety-Critical Systems

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