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Alumni Reflections on Gender Equality in the ICT Context




TekijätKoskivaara Eija, Somerkoski Brita

ToimittajaMarié Hattingh, Machdel Matthee, Hanlie Smuts, Ilias Pappas, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Matti Mäntymäki

Konferenssin vakiintunut nimiConference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society

KustantajaSpringer

Julkaisuvuosi2020

JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science

Kokoomateoksen nimiI3E 2020: Responsible Design, Implementation and Use of Information and Communication Technology

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Vuosikerta12067

Aloitussivu380

Lopetussivu386

ISBN978-3-030-45001-4

eISBN978-3-030-45002-1

ISSN0302-9743

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45002-1_33

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7134262/


Tiivistelmä

This study aims to bridge the digital gender divide in information and communication technology (ICT) education and field by reflecting the alumni opinions on gender equality in the ICT context. The study aims to raise the awareness of gender equality issues through the work-life reflections. This is done to understand better the gender equality issue, and to give proposals to promoting equality also for the faculty members who teach ICT related subjects in the university. The data for the study was collected from 131 (n = 131) ICT alumni that represent 25 nationalities. Results reveal that men with 77% share dominate the closest supervisor positions and 14% of the previous ICT students in the university have felt some kind of gender-based discrimination in their work. The data-driven content analysis was used to analyze the data. In the analysis we found five main categories behind the gender-based discrimination: society, organizational; individual action; hard facts and zero. We argue, that society, organizational, and individual action proposals illustrate the digital transformation process.



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