Critical empirical research in IS: an example of gender and the IT workforce

Trauth, Eileen M.; Howcroft, Debra

doi:10.1108/09593840610689859

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“…The skills shortage in IT during the 1990s was a catalyst for research into the low numbers of women participating in the development and management of IT with several special issues organised on this topic (see, e.g. Panteli & Stack, 2004; Trauth & Howcroft, 2006; Whitehouse, 2006). Trauth's (2006) Encyclopedia on Gender and Information Technology is the best exemplar so far of recent and emerging areas of collective research on this topic with contributions from more than a hundred leading international experts.…”

Section: Women Career Breaks and It–trends And Issuesmentioning

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A community of practice view of intervention programmes: the case of women returning to IT

Panteli

2012

Information Systems Journal

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The study presents an intervention programme for women returning to the information technology (IT) industry following a career break. This is interpreted through the lens of the community of practice perspective. The longitudinal nature of the case study offered opportunities for in‐depth investigation of participants' experience and development during the process. Using this datum, a mid‐level analytical approach is adopted. It is found that learning about the path to return to IT emerged regardless of the degree of participation in the intervention programme, and this was supported by the diversity and integration embedded in this programme. The implications of the findings for our understanding of intervention programmes are discussed.

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Section: Women Career Breaks and It–trends And Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A community of practice view of intervention programmes: the case of women returning to IT

Panteli

2012

Information Systems Journal

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“…For almost a decade, researchers have sought to identify barriers to the retention of female IS employees (e.g., Ahuja, 2002;Trauth and Howcroft, 2006). Riemenschneider et al (2006) studied female IS employees and identified key workplace barriers that often lead to voluntary turnover decisions (e.g., managing family responsibilities, stress, work schedule flexibility, job qualities, promotion barriers, discrimination and a lack of consistency on the part of management).…”

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Challenges and barriers facing women in the IS workforce

Armstrong

Riemenschneider

Reid

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 49th SIGMIS Annual Conference on Computer Personnel Research

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In 2006, Riemenschneider et al. asked women working in the IS department at a Fortune 500 company what workplace barriers they faced that had influenced their voluntary turnover decisions that men did not. The current investigation offers a replication and extension of the Riemenschneider et al. (2006) study. Specifically, this research begins to examine what changes have (or have not) taken place in the IS workplace regarding the challenges and barriers facing women in the IS field. Preliminary findings indicate that while Barriers: Promotion, Managing Family Responsibilities, Work Schedule Flexibility, Work Stress and Turnover were the key concepts identified by Riemenschneider et al. (2006), Work Stress is one of the few key issues that remains salient. What seems to be more salient for the current participants are issues related to the work environment, such as politics and bureaucracy (e.g., Barriers: Politics).

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“…The use of critical epistemology for gender research (Trauth and Howcroft, 2006a) and for gender and race research (Kvasny, 2006) is already documented in the IT literature. The recent growth of critical research is consistent with the growing recognition of the organizational and societal contexts in the study of IT development, deployment and use.…”

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Power relations in IT education and work: the intersectionality of gender, race, and class

Kvasny

Trauth

Morgan

2009

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

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Purpose -Social exclusion as a result of gender, race, and class inequality is perhaps one of the most pressing challenges associated with the development of a diverse information technology (IT) workforce. Women remain under represented in the IT workforce and college majors that prepare students for IT careers. Research on the under representation of women in IT typically assumes women to be homogeneous in nature, something that blinds the research to variation that exists among women. This paper aims to address these issues. Design/methodology/approach -The paper challenges the assumption of heterogeneity by investigating how the intersection of gender, race, and class identities shape the experiences of Black female IT workers and learners in the USA. Findings -The results of this meta-analysis offer new ways of theorizing that provide nuanced understanding of social exclusion and varied emancipatory practices in reaction to shared group exposure to oppression. Originality/value -This study on the under-representation of women as IT workers and learners in the USA considers race and class as equally important factors for understanding variation among women. In addition, this paper provides rich insights into the experiences of Black women, a group that is largely absent from the research on gender and IT.

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Critical empirical research in IS: an example of gender and the IT workforce

Cited by 56 publications

References 38 publications

A community of practice view of intervention programmes: the case of women returning to IT

A community of practice view of intervention programmes: the case of women returning to IT

Challenges and barriers facing women in the IS workforce

Power relations in IT education and work: the intersectionality of gender, race, and class

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