Overcoming gender bias in the digital economy. Empirical evidence for European countries

Lechman, Ewa; Popowska, Magdalena

doi:10.1080/09718524.2022.2127064

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“…The results of the research point to the insuffi cient representation of women in the ICT sector, but it is also necessary to deal with the reasons why this difference exists. One of the key causes contributing to gender inequality in the ICT sector, as discussed in the literature, is the gender gap in education for technology (Lechman, Popowska, 2022;Kvasny, Trauth, Morgan, 2009). Indeed, data on the share of female graduates in tertiary education in the fi eld of ICT in the total number of graduates (%) presented in Table 1 reveal this gender gap as well.…”

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“…Despite the potential for women to thrive in the digital realm, various factors hinder their full participation and success. The gender gap in entrepreneurship is widespread in the science, technology and engineering sectors (Lechman, Popowska, 2022;Hampton, McGowan, Cooper, 2011), and the ICT sector (Tihlarik, Sauer, 2021), and is sustained by the underrepresentation of women among ICT workers, as well as among graduates of STEM and ICT education at the university level (Lechman, Popowska, 2022;Kvasny, Trauth, Morgan, 2009). It is believed that the gender gap in employment in high-tech sectors is even widening (Lechman, Popowska, 2022).…”

Section: Female Entrepreneurs and Specialists In Digitalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The gender gap in entrepreneurship is widespread in the science, technology and engineering sectors (Lechman, Popowska, 2022;Hampton, McGowan, Cooper, 2011), and the ICT sector (Tihlarik, Sauer, 2021), and is sustained by the underrepresentation of women among ICT workers, as well as among graduates of STEM and ICT education at the university level (Lechman, Popowska, 2022;Kvasny, Trauth, Morgan, 2009). It is believed that the gender gap in employment in high-tech sectors is even widening (Lechman, Popowska, 2022). Indeed, gender biases and stereotypes persist within the tech industry, resulting in the overrepresentation of men in technical roles while discouraging women from pursuing entrepreneurship in the ICT sector.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…This shared lack of knowledge and unawareness of professionals and survivors may reflect a gender digital divide (Martinez-Cantos, 2017;Lechman & Popowska, 2022), a result of gendered structural dynamics of power. Survivors' autonomy and personal power are compromised when they are subjected to digital surveillance technologies, but, at the same time, the lack of knowledge of service providers, predominantly women, reinforces their unequal status as a result of structural inequalities.…”

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“…While there is a growing corpus of research and practice in technology-related fields in favor of GE, there is also a need to recognize the impeding impact of anti-gender politics at both local and global scales, both for now and in the future. Parallel to such tension, gender bias in technology-related fields persists despite efforts to eliminate it ( Lechman and Popowska, 2022 ), which can be attributed to the limited adoption and development of norm-critical perspectives as well as the practitioners’ limited reflection on how they are oriented toward such norms and biases in the first place. When it comes to design, gender stereotyping is at work in dichotomous relation between certain sub-fields of design that are considered suitable for men and others for women ( Kaygan, 2016 ).…”

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Overcoming gender bias in the digital economy. Empirical evidence for European countries

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