Encyclopedia of Gender And Information Technology

Title Page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
List of Contributors......Page 5
Contents by Volume......Page 12
Foreword......Page 23
Preface......Page 25
About the Editor......Page 28
An Agenda for Research on Gender Diversity in the Global Information Economy......Page 30
Facing and Changing Reality in the Australian IT Industry......Page 35
Gender and Information Systems Research at the University of Salford......Page 38
Social Change Research and the Gender Gap in Computer Science......Page 44
Section II: Gender and Information Technology General Content......Page 49
Access and Use of ICTs Among Women in Jamaica......Page 50
ACM's Attention to Women in IT......Page 56
Addressing the Gender Gap in IT via Women's Preferences in Video Games......Page 62
Age, Gender, and Cognitive Style Differences in IS Professionals......Page 68
Analyzing Gender Segregation in Computing......Page 74
Approaches to Conceptualising Gender......Page 80
Articulating ICT Use Narratives in Everyday Life......Page 86
Attitudes Towards ICT in Australian High Schools......Page 93
Australian IT Enrollment Trends and Model of Contributing Factors......Page 99
The Beijing World Conference on Women, ICT Policy, and Gender......Page 106
Biographical Stories of European Women Working in ICT......Page 113
Boards Need Women with IT......Page 119
Bridging the Entrepreneurial and Technology Gap for Women......Page 126
Career Management Concerns for Women in IT......Page 133
Checking Female Foeticide in the Information Age......Page 139
Childhood Interest in Computers and Adult Career Choices in IT......Page 145
Community and Gender in the Virtual Classroom......Page 152
Comparing Gender Differences in Computer Science and Management Information Systems Majors......Page 158
A Complex View of Technological Change in the UK......Page 165
Computer Skills, Technostress, and Gender in Higher Education......Page 171
Computing in a New Zealand Urban Community......Page 178
Constructing Gender Bias in Computer Science......Page 184
Critical Research on Gender and Information Systems......Page 190
The Cross-Cultural Dimension of Gender and Inforamtion Technology......Page 196
Crossing the Digital Divide in a Women's Community ICT Centre......Page 203
Cultural Factors and Colective Identity of Women in ICT......Page 209
A Cultural Studies Approach to Gender and ICT......Page 215
Cyber/Ecofeminism......Page 221
Design and Women's Expectations of WWW Experience......Page 227
A Developing Country Perspective on Women's ICT Adoption......Page 234
Digital Divide, Gender, and the Indian Experience in IT......Page 240
Directing Equal Pay in the UK ICT Labour Market......Page 249
Discrimination and Hostility Toward Women and Minorities in the IT Work Force......Page 256
Diversity in Studying Gender and IT......Page 265
Earnings of Women with Computer Science or Engineering College Majors......Page 273
An Economist's Perspective on Women in the IT Workforce......Page 277
E-Empowerment through Strengthening......Page 284
Employment Arrangements, Need Profiles, and Gender......Page 291
Empower Gender Diversity with Agile Software Development......Page 298
Empowering Homemakers to Become E-Homepreneurs......Page 306
Engendering Universal Access to ICT in Rural Areas......Page 313
Enhancing Inclusion in Computer Science Education......Page 318
Environmental Context and Women in the IT Workforce......Page 325
Factors Influencing Girls' Choice of Information Technology Careers......Page 331
Factors that Influence Women and Men to Enroll in IT Majors......Page 338
A Faculty Role in Women's Participation in Computing......Page 346
Female Perceptions of the Information Technology Culture......Page 353
Female Pupils' Perception of Electrical Engineering......Page 359
Female Retention in Post-Secondary IT Education......Page 366
Females on Technology Courses in UK Colleges......Page 372
A Feminist Agenda for Reducing the Gender Digital Divide......Page 378
Feminist Standpoint Theory......Page 384
Five Perspectives on Women and Men in the IT Workforce......Page 390
Fostering Technology Interest Among HIgh School Girls......Page 398
Funding Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology in Ireland......Page 404
Gender and Chat Forums......Page 410
Gender and Computing at University in the UK......Page 414
Gender and Differences in Online Teaching Styles......Page 421
Gender and Discourse Styles in CMC Learning Groups......Page 427
Gender and Diversity in E-Learning......Page 434
Gender and Education in Oral Traditions, Culture, and ICTs......Page 441
Gender and End-User Computing......Page 447
Gender and E-Service in CEE and the CIS......Page 454
Gender and ICT Policies and Programmes in an Indian State......Page 460
Gender and ICTs in Zambia......Page 466
Gender and Information Technology in Rural Bangldesh......Page 472
Gender and IT in the concept of Sustainability......Page 475
Gender and IT Professional Work Identity......Page 483
Gender and National IT Policy in Nigeria......Page 489
Gender and Professionalisation in IT Fields......Page 495
Gender and Software Engineering......Page 502
Gender and Telework in Information Technology......Page 509
Gender and the Australian IT Industry......Page 516
Gender and the Culture of Computing in Applied IT Eeducation......Page 523
Gender and the Household Internet......Page 531
Gender and the Internet User......Page 537
Gender and the Use of DSS in the Australian Cotton Industry......Page 543
Gender Bias in Computer Courses in Australia......Page 550
Gender Differences in Adolescents' Attitudes about IT Careers......Page 556
Gender Differences in Adoption and Use of a Healthcare IT Application......Page 563
Gender Differences in an Austrian IT Manufacturing Plant......Page 571
Gender Differences in Defining Technology......Page 577
Gender Differences in Education and Training in the IT Workforce......Page 584
Gender Differences in Ethics Perceptions in Information Technology......Page 592
Gender Differences in Information Technology Acceptance......Page 599
Gender Differences in Internet Usage and Task Preferences......Page 606
Gender Differences in IT Use in the U.S. and Japan......Page 613
Gender Differences in Online Courses......Page 619
Gender Differences in the Navigation of Electronic Worlds......Page 626
Gender Discrepancies through the College Years......Page 632
Gender Equalization in Computer-Mediated Communication......Page 638
Gender ICT and Millennium Development Goals......Page 645
Gender Identity and Systems Development......Page 652
Gender Identity, the Culture of Organizations, and Women's IT Careers......Page 658
Gender in Computer Science......Page 664
Gender in Distance Education Technology......Page 671
Gender in Norwegian Computer History......Page 679
Gender Inclusion in the Information Society......Page 685
Gender Inequalities for Use and Access of ICTs in Developing Countries......Page 692
Gender Influences on Ethical Considerations in the IT Environment......Page 698
Gender Issues in Eastern Europe......Page 705
Gender Motives for Web Acceptance and Use......Page 712
Gender Recruitment Issues in the IT Sector......Page 720
Gender Sensitive Design Practices......Page 724
Gender, Education, and Video Games......Page 731
Gender, Gaming, and IT Careers......Page 736
Gender, IT, and Education Choice in East and West Europe......Page 742
Gender, Place, and Information Technology......Page 748
Gender, Race, Social Class, and Information Technology......Page 754
Gender-Based Attitudes Toward Technology......Page 760
Gendered Attrition at the Undergraduate Level......Page 763
Girls and Computing......Page 770
Girls, Games, and Intrepid Exploration on the Computer......Page 776
The Glass Ceiling in IT......Page 782
Government and Corporate Initiatives for Indian Women in IT......Page 788
Health Portals and Menu-Driven Identifies......Page 794
A Historical Perspective of Australian Women in Computing......Page 801
History of Feminist Approaches to Technology Studies......Page 808
How Gender Dynamics Affect Teleworkers' Performance in Malaysia......Page 814
ICT and Gender Inequality in the Middle East......Page 821
ICT Sector Characteristics in Finland......Page 829
ICT Usage in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 835
ICTs for Economic Empowerment in South India......Page 842
The Impact of Gender and Ethnicity on Participation in IT......Page 847
Indigenous Women in Scandinavia and a Potential Role for ICT......Page 851
The Influences and Responses of Women in IT Educaiton......Page 857
Institutional Characteristics and Gender Choice in IT......Page 862
The Intersection of Gender, Information Technology, and Art......Page 869
Introducing Young Females to Information Technology......Page 875
Issues Raised by the Women in IT (WINIT) Project in England......Page 881
IT for Emancipation of Women in India......Page 887
IT Work in European Organisations......Page 893
IT Workforce Composition and Characteristics......Page 899
IT Workplace Climate for Opportunity and Inclusion......Page 905
Making Executive Mentoring Work in IT......Page 912
Making of a Homogeneous IT Work Environment......Page 919
Managerial Careers, Gender, and Information Technology Field......Page 925
Matrix......Page 931
Maturity Rather than Gender is Importanbt for Study Success......Page 934
Mentoring Australian Girls in ICTs......Page 939
Migration of IT Specialists and Gender......Page 945
Motivating Women to Computer Science Education......Page 949
Multi-Disciplinary, Scientific, Gender Research......Page 956
Native American Women in Computing......Page 963
Negotiating a Hegemonic Discourse of Computing......Page 969
Online Life and Gender Dynamics......Page 975
Online Life and Gender Vagueness and Impersonation......Page 981
Online Life and Netsex or Cybersex......Page 988
Online Life and Online Bodies......Page 995
Outsourcing to the Post-Soviet Region and Gender......Page 1001
Pair Programming and Gender......Page 1006
Parental Support for Female IT Career Interest and Choice......Page 1012
Participation of Female Computer Science Students in Austraia......Page 1019
Participation of Women in Information Technology......Page 1025
Personality Characteristics of Established IT Professionals I: Big Five Personality Characteristics......Page 1032
Personality Characteristics of Established IT Professionals II: Occupational Personality Characterics......Page 1039
A Perspective of Equality and Role for Women in IT......Page 1048
The Pipeline and Beyond......Page 1054
Postcolonial ICT Challenges......Page 1061
Postmodern Feminism......Page 1067
Predicting Women's Interest and Choice of an IT Career......Page 1072
A Psychosocial Framework for IT Education......Page 1078
Pushing and Pulling Women into Technology-Plus Jobs......Page 1084
Questioning Gender through Deconstruction and Doubt......Page 1090
Questioning Gender through Transformative Critical Rooms......Page 1097
Race and Gender in Culturally Situated Design Tools......Page 1103
Race and the IT Workforce......Page 1111
Reasons for Women to Leave the IT Workforce......Page 1117
A Reflexive Analysis of Questions for Women Entering the IT Workforce......Page 1124
Retaining Women in Undergraduate Information Technology Programs......Page 1130
Schema Disjunction Among Computer Science Students......Page 1136
The Shrinking Pipeline in Israeli High Schools......Page 1141
Skills of Women Technologists......Page 1148
The Social Construction of Australian Women in IT......Page 1154
Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Online HIV/AIDS Information......Page 1161
The Social Impact of Gender and Games......Page 1166
Strategies of ICT Use for Women's Economic Empowerment......Page 1170
Student and Faculty Choices that Widen the Experience Gap......Page 1177
Survey Feedback Interventions in IT Workplaces......Page 1183
Teaching Gender Inclusive Computer Ethics......Page 1191
A Techno-Feminist Viewon the Open Source Software Development......Page 1197
Theorizing Gender and Information Technology Research......Page 1203
Theorizing Masculinity in Information Systems Research......Page 1209
Third World Feminist Perspectives on Information Technology......Page 1215
UN World Summit on the Information Society......Page 1221
Understanding the Mommy Tracks in the IT Workforce......Page 1227
Unintended Consequences of Definitions of IT Professional......Page 1233
Virtual Learning and Teaching Environments......Page 1240
Vulnerability to Internet Crime and Gender Issues......Page 1246
Web-Based Learning and Its Impacts on Junior Science Classes......Page 1252
What Women IT Professionals Want from Their Work......Page 1259
The Woman Problem in Computer Science......Page 1265
Women and Computing Careers in Australia......Page 1272
Women and ICTs in the Arab World......Page 1279
Women and Recruitment to the IT Profession in the UK......Page 1287
Women and Social Capital Networks in the IT Workforce......Page 1294
Women and the IT Workplace in North West England......Page 1301
Women Embrace Computing in Mauritius......Page 1307
Women Entrepreneurs in Finnish ICT Industry......Page 1316
Women in Computing in the Czech Republic......Page 1322
Women in Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 1328
Women in the Free/Libre Open Source Software Development......Page 1335
Women Returners in the UK IT Industry......Page 1341
Women, Hi-Tech, and the Family-Career Conflict......Page 1346
Women, Mathematics, and Computing......Page 1352
Women's Role in the Development of the Internet......Page 1358
Women's Access to ICT in an Urban Area of Nigeria......Page 1364
WSIS Gender and ICT Policy......Page 1367
Young Women and Persistence in Information Technology......Page 1374
Index of Key Terms......Page 1380
Index......Page 1396