First-Generation Undergraduate Women and Intersectional Obstacles to Pursuing Post-Baccalaureate Computing Degrees
First-Generation Undergraduate Women and Intersectional Obstacles to Pursuing Post-Baccalaureate Computing Degrees
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第一代本科女性和攻读学士学位后计算机学位的交叉障碍
DOI：
10.1109/respect51740.2021.9620632
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2021
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Kate Atchison
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Kristina Kramarczuk;J. Plane;Kate Atchison
与男性相比，第一代女大学生在计算机科学和工程领域进行研究生研究的人数长期偏低。本研究使用Rodriguez & Lehman（2017）交叉计算身份理论来分析为期三年的全女性和非二进制计算研究研讨会期间收集的调查前和调查后数据。我们探讨了系统性因素在研究生水平的计算研究中第一代女性代表性不足的作用，并调查了周末的研究经验如何影响参与者在研究背景下的计算身份。Wilcoxon秩和检验显示，第一代女性表示较低的舒适度水平，在未来完成研究相比，继续一代女性（p = 0.017）。然而，第一代和第二代参与者对研究的兴趣没有显着差异。调查数据还显示，大多数参与者从研讨会中受益，并发现全女性和非二元团队比传统的男性主导的计算空间更令人鼓舞。研究结果表明，第一代妇女更有可能有计算的经验，降低他们的信心，完成研究相比，继续一代妇女。然而，他们也揭示了研究研讨会有可能支持学生的交叉计算身份，并挑战系统性障碍，降低学生对计算研究生课程的兴趣和信心。为了缩小研究生水平计算课程中的性别差距，高等教育机构应考虑举办研究研讨会，同时为本科生提供研究经验（REU），并支持该领域代表性最低的学生的交叉计算身份。
The number of first-generation women college students pursuing graduate-level research in computer science (CS) and engineering is chronically low compared to men. This study uses Rodriguez & Lehman's (2017) intersectional computing identity theory to analyze pre- and post-survey data collected during three years of a weekend-long all-women and non-binary computing research workshop. We explore the role that systemic factors play in the underrepresentation of first-generation women in graduate-level computing research and investigate how the weekend-long research experience impacted participants' computing identities in a research context. Wilcoxon rank sum tests revealed that first-generation women express lower comfort levels to complete research in the future compared to continuing generation women (p = 0.017). However, there was no significant difference between first-generation and continuing generation participants' interest to do research. Survey data also revealed that the majority of participants benefited from the workshop and found all-women and nonbinary teams more encouraging than traditional, male-dominated computing spaces. Findings indicate that first-generation women are more likely to have experiences in computing that lower their confidence to complete research compared to continuing generation women. However, they also reveal that research workshops have the potential to support students' intersectional computing identities and challenge systemic barriers that lower student interest and confidence in computing graduate programs. In order to close the gender gap in graduate-level computing programs, institutions of higher education should consider hosting research workshops that simultaneously provide research experiences for undergraduates (REU) and support the intersectional computing identities of students most underrepresented in the field.