Examining the Obstacles to Broadening Participation in Computing: Evidence from a Survey of Professional Workers.
This article describes the results of a survey of professional workers that was designed to explore the underlying reasons for the widely documented underrepresentation of women in information technology (IT) jobs. Our analysis suggests that it is different occupational personalities between men and...
| Published in: | Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 413 - 422 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
July 2009
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