The advancement and persistence of women in the information technology profession: An extension of Ahuja's gendered theory of IT career stages

Armstrong, Deborah J.; Riemenschneider, Cynthia K.; Giddens, Laurie

doi:10.1111/isj.12185

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“…In this study, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 17 women entrepreneurs in Perth, Western Australia (WA), as part of a larger research project. As both researchers were previously based in Perth, the choice of location allowed for a strategic and convenience sampling method, a similar approach adopted in other studies (Annabi & Lebovitz, 2018;Armstrong, Riemenschneider, & Giddens, 2018;Trauth et al, 2008). Additionally, although WA has traditionally been dependent on the mining and resources sector, it has become a vibrant emerging entrepreneurial hub.…”

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Women entrepreneurs' digital social innovation: Linking gender, entrepreneurship, social innovation and information systems

Suseno

Abbott

2021

Information Systems Journal

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This article responds to increasing discourses on digital social innovation (DSI) from the perspectives of women entrepreneurs. Using the individual differences theory of gender and information technology (IDTGIT), this research explores how digital technology is used by women entrepreneurs to create opportunities in response to the challenges associated with individual identity, individual influences, social influences and structural influences. We also extend the IDTGIT by exploring how technology is used by women entrepreneurs in their DSI ventures and how technology facilitates the social impact of such ventures. This paper draws on a qualitative study using interviews with 17 women entrepreneurs in Australia, and our findings indi-

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Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women entrepreneurs' digital social innovation: Linking gender, entrepreneurship, social innovation and information systems

Suseno

Abbott

2021

Information Systems Journal

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“…Achieving a sense of belonging may be more challenging for women in predominantly male environments [16]. Beyer [12] found that students who valued family life over careers were less likely to select a computing CS course; however, Armstrong et al [17] revealed workplaces becoming more flexible and the possibilities for IT roles to be specifically family-friendly, for example through home-working.…”

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Computing degree apprenticeships: An opportunity to address gender imbalance in the IT sector?

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Taylor‐Smith

Fabian

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)

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This paper explores the potential for new workbased apprenticeship degrees to encourage more women into computing degrees and the IT sector. In the UK, women are currently under-represented on computing courses. Meanwhile the IT industry requires more computing graduates, in general, and specifically more highly skilled women to create appropriate products and systems. The UK has recently introduced apprenticeship computing degrees, where the apprentice is a work-based employee. In some models, apprentices spend 20% of their time on Higher Education studies and also gain credits through work-based learning; in others, apprentices spend blocks of time in Higher Education and the workplace. These degrees offer a new and innovative route to studying computing at university. Largely funded by employers, apprentices are salaried, and their fees are paid, paving the way for more people to study for a degree. The work context enables apprentices to keep their jobs (if relevant) or to move into IT roles and start a computing degree without necessarily having computing qualifications; the degrees have no upper age limit. Extending the work-based approach of US cooperative education and student work placement models, apprenticeship degrees have been introduced to increase skills levels through a close partnership between universities and employers. This is particularly important in IT, where the sector is expanding, and employers are looking for both good technical and personal skills. With this model, employers are collaboratively involved in the design of the degrees and apprentices graduate with extensive work experience. We posed the following research question: Are there differences in the paths into computing apprenticeship degrees between women and men? A survey was conducted with apprentices beginning a degree in Fall 2019: Cyber Security, Data Science, IT Management for Business, or Software Engineering/Development. Participants were asked about their routes into the apprenticeship and the IT sector. Apprentices at five universities in Scotland and one in Northern Ireland completed the survey, on paper or online (n=85; 23 female, 59 male).The results revealed a less severe gender imbalance than with comparative on-campus degrees (28% female), but this varied greatly across the subjects, from Data Science, where 55% of respondents identified as female and IT Management for Business (40% female), to Software Development (27% female) and Cyber Security (only 11% female). Apprentices were more likely to have started the degree at least a few years after leaving school and this was especially true for women. More female respondents had also been with their current employer for over five years. However, women were slightly more likely to have joined their employers in order to start the apprenticeship. This initial work identifies opportunities to recruit women onto computing degree apprenticeships, for example by targeting women who have started careers. It also highlights that there are challenges in recruiting women ...

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“…The reason for this choice comes from the fact that gender is an “ omnirelevant ” category (Garfinkel, 1967) whose significance for work has long been documented (Hatmaker, 2013; Webster, 2014; West & Zimmerman, 1987). Gender is associated with differences in job choices (Barbulescu & Bidwell, 2013), hiring decisions (Gorman, 2005), promotions (Armstrong, Riemenschneider, & Giddens, 2018; Powell & Butterfield, 1994) as well as broader organizational dynamics (Hanson & Pratt, 2003; Huffman, Cohen, & Pearlman, 2010). Management scholarship has provided important analyses of how organizations and the men and women who work in them participate in gendered processes (Ashcraft, 2013).…”

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A Seat at the Table and a Room of Their Own: Interconnected processes of social media use at the intersection of gender and occupation

Vaast

2019

Organization Studies

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Social media have enabled people to connect with others in unprecedented ways. Existing scholarship has so far provided conflicting insights regarding what people do with these connections. Here I propose that to make sense of what people accomplish with social media-enabled connections, one needs to examine more closely their foundations. Specifically, one key way to understand social media-enabled connections is to consider how social media enable people to come together on the basis of joint social identities. This study focuses on how people use social media in ways that connect them to one another at the intersection of gender and occupational identities, i.e. two social identities that have been central to many organization studies and are critical in today’s societies. The study relies upon the qualitative investigation of how women and gender non-binaries data scientists used social media. The study reveals that, at the intersection of gender and occupation, people use social media to engage in three interconnected processes of promoting inclusion, co-producing equalizing resources, and fostering exclusive enclaves. It brings light to new ambivalence reflected in people’s uses of social media as they seek, simultaneously, to reshape gender dynamics in their occupation and to protect their reputation as competent workers. It unpacks why and how, with social media, the professional and the political have become intertwined.

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The advancement and persistence of women in the information technology profession: An extension of Ahuja's gendered theory of IT career stages

Cited by 60 publications

References 137 publications

Women entrepreneurs' digital social innovation: Linking gender, entrepreneurship, social innovation and information systems

Women entrepreneurs' digital social innovation: Linking gender, entrepreneurship, social innovation and information systems

Computing degree apprenticeships: An opportunity to address gender imbalance in the IT sector?

A Seat at the Table and a Room of Their Own: Interconnected processes of social media use at the intersection of gender and occupation

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