Environmental influences on gender in the IT workforce
Environmental influences on gender in the IT workforce
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环境对 IT 员工性别的影响
DOI：
10.1145/1341971.1341975
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发表时间：
2008
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通讯作者：
Benjamin Yeo
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作者：
E. Trauth;Jeria L. Quesenberry;Benjamin Yeo
为了更好地了解妇女在信息技术专业中代表性不足的情况，一个有希望的调查方向是社会文化环境因素的影响。为了研究这一主题，我们利用了对美国三个地区的女性IT专业人员进行的多年实地研究的数据：马萨诸塞州，北卡罗来纳州和宾夕法尼亚州。我们采用Trauth（2000）关于环境对地区信息经济发展影响的概念框架来考虑经济和文化对IT领域女性招聘和保留的影响。调查结果揭示了一系列的影响和各种各样的反应。这项研究对理论理解的贡献是双重的。首先，我们证明，社会文化因素作为两个障碍和促进妇女的招聘和保留在IT行业。这表明不仅需要调查妇女本身，而且需要调查她们成长、生活和工作的社会环境。其次，我们证明，没有一个单方面的环境因素，可以解释妇女的代表性不足。相反，不同的区域影响和个人对这些影响的反应是显而易见的。环境影响和妇女对环境影响的反应之间的这种变化为正在进行的理论发展工作提供了经验支持，这些理论发展工作涉及个体差异在解释妇女在信息技术领域代表性不足方面的作用
In an effort to better understand the under- representation of women within the IT profession, one promising line of investigation is the influence of factors in the socio-cultural environment. In order to examine this topic, we draw on data from a multi-year field study of women IT professionals in three regions of the U.S.: Massachusetts, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. We employ Trauth's (2000) conceptual framework of environmental influences on the development of a region's information economy to consider economic and cultural influences on women's recruitment and retention in the IT field. The findings reveal a range of influences and a wide variety of responses to them. The contribution of this research to theoretical understanding is twofold. First, we demonstrate that socio-cultural factors serve as both barriers to and facilitators of women's recruitment and retention in the IT profession. This suggests the need for investigations of not just women themselves, but also of the societal environments within which they grow up, live and work. Second, we demonstrate that there is not one unilateral set of environment factors that can explain women's under-representation. Rather, a combination of differing regional influences and individual responses to them is in evidence. This finding of variability both among environmental influences and among women's responses to them provides empirical support for ongoing theory development efforts regarding the role of individual differences in explaining women's under-representation in IT