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Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology
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Author(s)/Editor(s): Eileen M. Trauth (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Copyright: ©2006
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-815-4
ISBN13: 9781591408154
ISBN10: 1591408156
EISBN13: 9781591408161
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DescriptionThe Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology is the only reference work that provides an all-encompassing perspective on the way gender and information technology impact each other. Hundreds of leading international experts have compiled their research about the role of gender in human interaction with IT and the IT profession. Special attention is paid to the contributions, challenges, issues, and experiences of women in the IT field. This innovative encyclopedia contains more than 1,450 key terms and their definitions, supplying readers with the most complete understanding of the subject. These two volumes include 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology in order to stimulate further research. The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology is a must-have publication for every library.
Table of Contents
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#1. Access and the Use of ICTs Among Women in Jamaica
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#2. ACM's Attention ot Women in IT
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#3. Addressing the Gender Gap in IT via Women's Preferences in Video Games
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#4. Age, Gender, and Cognitive Style Differneces in IS Professionals
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#5. Analyzing Gender Segregation in Comuting
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#6. Approaches to Conceptualizing Gender
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#7. Articulating ICT Use Narratives in Everyday Life
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#8. Attitudes Towards ICT in Australian High Schools
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#9. Australian IT Enrollment Trends and Model of Contributing Factors
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#10. The Beijing World Conference on Women, ICT Policy, and Gender
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#11. Biographical Stories of European Women Working in ICT
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#12. Boards Need Women with IT
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#13. Bridging th Entrepreneurial and Technology Gap for Women
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#14. Career Management Concerns for Women in IT
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#15. Checking Female Foeticide in the Information Age
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#16. Childhood Interest in Computers and Adult Career Choices in IT
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#17. Community and Gender in the Virtual Classroom
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#18. Comparing Gender Differences in Computer Science and Management Information Systems Majors
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#19. A Complex View of Technological Change in the UK
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#20. Computer Skills, Technostress, and Gender in Higher Education
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#21. Computing in a New Zealand Urban Community
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#22. Constructing Gender Bias in Computer Science
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#23. Critical Research on Gender and Information Systems
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#24. The Cross-Cultural Dimension of Gender and Information Technology
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#25. Crossing the Digital Divide in a Women's Community ICT Centre
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#26. Cultural Factors and Collective Identity of Women in ICT
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#27. A Cultural Studies Approach to Gender and ICT
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#28. Cyber/Ecofeminism
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#29. Design and Women's Expectations of WWW Experience
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#30. Developing Country Perspective on Women's ICT Adoption
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#31. Digital Divide, Gender and the Indian Experience in IT
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#32. Directing Equal Pay in the UK ICT Labour Market
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#33. Discrimination and Hostility Toward Women and Minorities in the IT Work Force
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#34. Diversity in Studying Gender and IT
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#35. Earnings of Women with Computer Sciences or Engineering College Majors
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#36. An Economist's Perspective on Women in the IT Workforce
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#37. E-Empowerment through Strengthening Women's Policy Issues via the Internet
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#38. Employment Arrangements, Need Profiles, and Gender
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#39. Empower Gender Diversity with Agile Software Development
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#40. Empowering Homemakers to Become E-Homepreneurs
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#41. Engendering Universal Access to ICT in Rural Areas
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#42. Enhancing Inclusion in Computer Science Education
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#43. Environmental Context and Women in the IT Workforce
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#44. Factors Influencing Girls' Choice of Information Technology Careers
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#45. Factors that Influence Women and Men to Enroll in IT Majors
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#46. A Faculty Role in Women's Participating in Computing
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#47. Female Perceptions of the Information Technology Culture
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#48. Female Pupils' Perception of Electrical Engineering
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#49. Female Retention in Post-Secondary IT Education
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#50. Females on Technology Courses in UK Colleges
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#51. Femenist Agenda for Reducing th Gender Digital Divide
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#52. Femenist Standpoint Theory
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#53. Five Perspectives on Women and Men in the IT Workforce
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#54. Fostering Technology Interest Among High School Girls
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#55. Funding Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology in Ireland
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#56. Gender and Chat Forums
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#57. Gender and Computing at University in the UK
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#58. Gender and Differences in Online Teaching Styles
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#59. Gender and Discourse Styles in CMC Learning Groups
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#60. Gender and Diversity in E-Learning
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#61. Gender and Education in Oral Traditions, Culture, and ICTs
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#62. Gender and End-User Computing
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#63. Gender and E-Service in CEE and the CIS
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#64. Gender and ICT Policies and Programmes in an Indian State
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#65. Gender and ICTs in Zamibia
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#66. Gender and Information Technology in Rural Bangladesh
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#67. Gender and IT in the Concept of Sustainability
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#68. Gender and IT Professional Work Identity
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#69. Gender and National IT Policy in Nigeria
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#70. Gender and Professionalism in IT Fields
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#71. Gender and Software Engineering
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#72. Gender and Telework in Information Technology
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#73. Gender and Australian IT Industry
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#74. Gender and the Culture of Computing in Applied IT Education
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#75. Gender and the Household Internet
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#76. Gender and the Internet User
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#77. Gender and the Use of DSS in the Australian Cotton Industry
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#78. Gender Bias in Computer Courses in Australia
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#79. Gender Differences in Adolescents' Attitudes about IT Careers
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#80. Gender Differences in Adoption and Use of a Healthcare IT Application
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#81. Gender Differences in an Austrian IT Manufacturing Plant
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#82. Gender Differences in Defining Technology
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#83. Gender Differences in Education and Training in the IT Workforce
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#84. Gender Differences in Ethics Perceptions in Information Technology
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#85. Gender Differences in Information Technology Acceptance
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#86. Gender Differences in Internet Usage and Task Preferences
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#87. Gender Differences in IT Use in the U.S. and Japan
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#88. Gender Differences in Online Courses
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#89. Gender Differences in the Navigation of Electronic Worlds
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#90. Designing Secure Data Warehouses
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#91. Gender Equalization in Computer-Mediated Communication
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#92. Gender ICT and Millennium Development Goals
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#93. Gender Identity and Systems Development
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#94. Gender Identity, the Culture of Organizations, and Women's IT Careers
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#95. Gender in Computer Science
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#96. Gender in Distance Education Technology
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#97. Gender in Norwegian Computer History
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#98. Gender Inclusion in the Information Society
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#99. Gender Inequalities for Use and Access of ICTs in Developing Countries
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#100. Gender Influences on Ethical Considerations in the IT Environment
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#101. Gender Issues in Eastern Europe
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#102. Gender Motives for Web Acceptance and Use
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#103. Gender Recruitment Issues in the IT Sector
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#104. Gender Senititve Design Practices
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#105. Gender, Education, and Video Games
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#106. Gender, Gaming, and IT Careers
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#107. Gender, IT, and Educational Choice in East and West Europe
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#108. Gender, Place and Information Technology
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#109. Gender, Race, Social Class, and Information Technology
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#110. Gender-Biased Attitudes Toward Technology
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#111. Gendered Attrition at the Undergraduate Level
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#112. Girls and Computing
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#113. Girls, Games, and Intrepid Exploration on the Computer
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#114. The Glass Ceiling in IT
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#115. Government and Corporate Initiatives for Indian Women in IT
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#116. Health Portals and Menu-Driven Identities
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#117. Historical Perspective of Australian Women in Computing
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#118. History of Feminist Approaches to Technology Studies
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#119. How Gender Dynamics Affect Teleworkers' Performance in Malaysia
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#120. ICT and Gender Inequality in the Middle East
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#121. ICT Sector Characterstics in Finland
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#122. ICT Usage in Sub-Saharan Africa
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#123. ICTs for Economic Empowerment in South India
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#124. The Impact of Gender and Ethnicity on Participation in IT
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#125. Indigenous Women in Scandinavia and a Potential Role for ICT
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#126. The Influences and Responses of Women in IT Education
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#127. Institutional Characteristics and Gender Choice in IT
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#128. The Intersection of Gender, Information Technology, and Art
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#129. Introducing Young Females to Information Technology
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#130. Issues Raised by the Women in IT (WINIT) Project in England
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#131. IT for Emancipation of Women in India
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#132. IT Work in European Organizations
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#133. IT Workforce Composition and Characteristics
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#134. IT Workplace Climate for Opportunity and Inclusion
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#135. Making Executive Mentoring Work in IT
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#136. Making of a Homogeneous IT Work Environment
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#137. Managerial Carers, Gender, and Information Technology Field
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#138. Matrix
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#139. Maturity Rather than Gender is Important for Study Success
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#140. Mentoring Australian Girls in ICTs
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#141. Migration of IT Specialists and Gender
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#142. Motivating Women to Computer Science Education
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#143. Multi-Disciplinary, Scientific, Gender Research
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#144. Native American Women in Computing
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#145. Negotiating a Hegemonic Discourse of Computing
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#146. Online Life and Gender Dynamics
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#147. Online Life and Gender Vagueness and Impersonation
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#148. Online Life and Netsex or Cybersex
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#149. Online Life and Online Bodies
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#150. Outsourcing to the Post-Soviet Region and Gender
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#151. Pair Programming and Gender
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#152. Parental Suport for Female IT Career Interest and Choice
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#153. Participation of Female Computer Science Students in Austria
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#154. Participation of Women in Information Technology
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#155. Personality Characteristics of Established IT Professionals I: Big Five Personality Characteristics
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#156. Personality Characteristics of Established IT Professionals II: Occupational Personality Charateristics
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#157. A Perspective of Equality and Role for Women in IT
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#158. The Pipeline and Beyond
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#159. Postcolonial ICT Challenges
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#160. Postmodern Femenism
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#161. Predicting Women's Interest and Choice of an IT Career
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#162. Psychological Framework for IT Education
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#163. Pushing and Pulling Women into Technology-Plus Jobs
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#164. Questioning Gender through Deconstruction and Doubt
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#165. Questioning Gender through Transformative Critical Rooms
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#166. Race and Gender in Culturally Situated Design Tools
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#167. Race and the IT Workforce
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#168. Reasons for Women to Leave the IT Workforce
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#169. A Reflexative Analysis of Questions for Women Entering the IT Workforce
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#170. Retaining Women in Undergraduate Information Technology Programs
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#171. Schema Disjunction Among Computer Science Students
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#172. The Shrinking Pipeline in Israeli High Schools
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#173. Skills of Women Technologists
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#174. The Social Construction of Australian Women in IT
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#175. Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Online HIV/AIDS Information
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#176. The Social Impact of Gender and Games
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#177. Strategies of ICT Use for Women's Economic Empowerment
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#178. Student and Faculty Choices that Widen the Experience Gap
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#179. Survey Feedback Interventions in IT Workplaces
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#180. Teaching Gender Inclusive Computer Ethics
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#181. Techno-Femenist View on the Open Source Software Development
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#182. Theorizing Gender and Information Technology Research
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#183. Theorizing Masclinity in Information Systems Research
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#184. Third World Femenist Perspectives on Information Technology
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#185. UN World Summit on the Information Society
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#186. Understanding the Mommy Tracks in the IT Workforce
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#187. Unintended Consequences of Definitions of IT Professionals
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#188. Virtual Learning and Teaching Environments
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#189. Vulnerability to Internet Crime and Gender Issues
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#190. Web-Based Learning and Its Impacts on Junior Science Classes
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#191. What Women IT Professionals Want from Their Work
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#192. The Woman Problem in Computer Science
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#193. Women and Computing Careers in Australia
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#194. Women and ICTs in the Arab World
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#195. Women and Recruitment to the IT Profession in the UK
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#196. Women and Social Capital Networks in the IT Workforce
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#197. Women and the IT Workplace in North West England
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#198. Women Embrace Computing in Mauritius
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#199. Women Entrepreneurs in Finnish ICT Industry
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#200. Women in Computing in the Czech Republic
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#201. Women in Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
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#202. Women in the Free/Libre Open Source Software Development
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#203. Women Returners in the UK IT Industry
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#204. Women, Hi-tech, and the Family-Career Conflict
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#205. Women, Mathematics, and Computing
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#206. Women's Role in the Development of the Internet
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#207. Women's Access to ICT in an Urban Area of Nigeria
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#208. WSIS Gender and ICT Policy
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#209. Young Women and Persistence in Information Technology
PrefaceAs information technology has spread to all corners of the world and to all aspects of personal and work life, so too, has grown an interest in understanding more about the diverse characteristics of those who use, develop, and are affected by information technology (IT). This is a significant development because understanding the diverse characteristics of both developers and users has ramifications for the way in which work is done, user requirements for systems are understood, and interaction with computer-based tools is accomplished. One important aspect of this human diversity is gender. What has accompanied this increased interest in the role of gender diversity in understanding IT development and use, in recent years, has been heightened research interest in the influence of gender on information systems and technology.
As a result, a large and diffuse body of research related to the role of gender in human interactions with information technology has emerged in recent years. This body of research spans a number of disciplines including: information science and technology; information systems; computer science; engineering; education; women’s studies; gender studies; labor studies; human resource management; and science, technology, and society. The focus of this research has been on issues such as similarities and differences between women’s and men’s use of information technology, variation in relationship to IT among members of each gender group, the effect of gender combined with other diversity characteristics (such as race or ethnicity) on IT use, and the underrepresentation of women in the IT profession. The audience for this research includes parents, educators, managers, policy makers, and other researchers. However, because this literature is located in so many different disciplines a number of problems have arisen. First, for students and scholars it is difficult to locate the corpus of relevant gender research literature when one wants to learn about or is engaged in gender and IT research. Second, it is difficult for educators, policy makers, managers, and other consumers of this literature to find the relevant material. Consequently, there is a need to bring this research literature together into a single reference source.
The idea for a compilation of research on the topic of gender and information technology originated in 2001. While attending a panel on women and IT at an information systems conference in Australia, several of us who are engaged in gender and IT research bemoaned the lack of coherence in the research. The problem, as we saw it, was that too little research is informed by the existing literature. Instead, too much research appears to be informed by anecdotal data or personal bias. Hence, current research on gender and IT is making less of a contribution to cumulative knowledge about this topic and less of an impact in addressing the issues than it could. At that gathering we began to talk about the need for a book that would bring together this disparate body of research literature. The opportunity to produce such a book came three years later when Mehdi Khosrow-Pour of Idea Group Inc. asked me to edit an encyclopedia on the topic of gender and IT. In accepting this invitation my goal for this book was: (1) to bring together the research literature from all the different disciplines that are producing research about gender and information technology; (2) to bring together the gender and IT research from around the world; and (3) to produce a comprehensive resource that could be the first source to which people would turn to learn about the current state of research on gender and information technology.
What has resulted is this two-volume Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology. It is an international compilation of research on the topic of gender and information technology, representing a broadrange of perspectives. Contributions to this important publication have been made by scholars throughout the world with notable research portfolios and expertise, as well as by emerging investigators. This encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and research devoted to the topic of gender and IT. It contains more than 200 articles highlighting this state-of-the-art research. These articles are written by scholars from around the world who are engaged with research into the influence of gender on the development and use of information technology as well as the impact of information technology on men and women. These articles include extensive bibliographies that, taken together, represent an exhaustive reference source for both the interested reader and the scholar engaged in research in the area of gender and IT.
In order to ensure that this encyclopedia has both geographical and disciplinary breadth, an international Advisory Board was established. The members of this Advisory Board introduce this volume by presenting overviews of their research programs in order to illustrate the ways in which the topic of gender and IT is being addressed in different countries.
To assist readers in navigating and identifying needed information, this two-volume encyclopedia has been organized by listing all entries in alphabetical order by title throughout the two volumes, and by including the title in the “Table of Contents” in the beginning of each volume. This important new publication is being distributed worldwide among academic and professional institutions and will be instrumental in providing researchers, scholars, students, and professionals with access to the latest knowledge related to research on women and men with respect to information technology.
Eileen M. Trauth, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Reviews and Testimonials
"Easily accessible to the nonspecialist, this unique resource does give a sense of the breadth of research in this field... Users might appreciate having the diverse topics brought together in one set."
– Library Journal, Volume 131, No. 19 (2006)
The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology provides an expansive analysis of diverse intellectual discourses, approaches, and theoretical foundations in a single collection. This is a must-have resource for academics, practitioners, libraries, and policy makers alike.
– Information Technology & People, Volume 19, No. 4
The diversity of topics, methodologies, theoretical perspectives, and core disciplines represented in this encyclopedia will serve the community with a rich and unified reference source.
– Prof. K.D. Joshi, Washington State University, USA
Spanning across continents, topics, and perspectives, these volumes capture the diversity and array of issues being examined in the study of gender and technology.
– Prof. Jane Margolis, University of California Los Angeles, USA
The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology provides an expansive analysis of the diverse intellectual discourses, approaches, and theoretical foundations of the field. This two-volume reference is a must-have resource for academics, practitioners, and policy makers alike.
– Prof. Jeria Quesenberry, Pennsylvania State University, USA
A thoroughly interesting and highly useful resource for business and industry entrepreneurs as well as researchers.
– Sonja Bernhardt, Australian Women in IT and Science Entity
A major challenge for researchers, practitioners, and decision makers involved in the development of new ICT applications is to find appropriate ways to understand users' social and cultural experiences of those applications. The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology offers valuable insights into the gender related social meanings that ICT applications promote in contemporary social situations and virtual worlds.
– Prof. Hannakaisa Isomaki, University of Lapland, Finland
This encyclopedia addresses many multidisciplinary issues concerning gender and technology, and introduces a variety of quantitative and qualitative research approaches.
– Prof. Helen Richardson, University of Salford, UK
Derived from studies carried out by the contributors, the 213 entries of this two-volume reference describe the experiences and potential for women in the field of IT. Each entry concludes with a list of references and a list of key terms with their definitions.
– Book News, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2007)
What an impressive accomplishment, to pull together so much information from such a broad range of institutions, countries, and topics. The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology is a fine first edition that presents a concise synopsis of current research on gender as related to the information technology field. It makes a fine online resource for students at the high school and undergraduate levels.
– Sue Dentinger, Feminist Collections, Volume 28, No. 2 (2007)
This two-volume encyclopedia reflects the spectrum of issues relevant to gender and the maturing IT environment around the globe.
– Julia Gelfand, University of California, USA
Author's/Editor's Biography
Eileen Trauth (Ed.)
Eileen M. Trauth is currently a Professor in the School of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are at the intersection of socio-cultural and organizational influences on IT and the IT profession. She has just completed a multi-year investigation of socio-cultural influences on Ireland's information economy. Her book, The Culture of an Information Economy: Influences and Impacts in the Republic of Ireland was published in 2000. Trauth has recently embarked upon a multi-country study of socio-cultural influences on gender in the IT profession. She has also published papers on global informatics, information policy, information management, IT skills, and qualitative research methodology. In addition to editing this book, Dr. Trauth is co-author of Information Literacy: An Introduction to Information Systems. She has taught and conducted research in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand and the UK, and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. Dr. Trauth received her Ph.D. in information science from the University of Pittsburgh.
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