Shaking the Tree

Abstract

Gender equity is an issue of increasing importance in the technology industry generally and HCI specifically. Women are historically underrepresented at all levels, but moreso in senior roles; conversely visible senior women increase female participation generally. In this paper we present the first scientometric analysis of OzCHI examining the interaction between gender and role seniority, showing that overall female representation is quite good, but we need to be cautious to preserve it. This is the first analysis of this type to examine the issue of gender in any HCI venue. CCS CONCEPTS • Social and professional topics~Gender • Social and professional topics~Industry statistics • Social and professional topics~Employment issues • Human-centered computing ~Human computer interaction (HCI)

You Oughta Know: Examining Author Geography and Gender in Information Science

“…We have deferred the study of author order to later research, as this would itself produce extensive data and merit analysis in a separate work. Our focus on full papers is also motivated by the same previous work: men are known to be more strongly represented in full papers, and in senior organizational roles (see (Bogers & Greifeneder, 2016; McKay & Buchanan, 2019). Again, a comparison of contribution types would merit separate reporting, as we have done in human‐computer interaction.…”

“…The manual checking of personal websites is time‐consuming, and precision could be maintained with the volumes involved. Recent works have taken similar timescales (McKay & Buchanan, 2019) or shorter periods such as two years (Bogers & Greifeneder, 2016). The earlier works that took longer timespans have used a sampling basis, e.g.…”

Computer Science Communities

“…In the broader picture, "women in STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics] make $16,000 less on average than their male counterparts" [35]. To date, the only breakthroughs include one recent paper has been written about the role that gender plays in senior roles and publishing within HCI [32].…”

“…Extant findings from these subfields explain the slight improvement in the male:female ratios. HCI has had issues regarding representation of women which are canvassed by McKay and Buchanan [32]. Via an analysis of OzCHI, the Australian HCI conference venue, these authors claim that "…female representation is quite good, but we need to be cautious to preserve it".…”