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A Comparison Between Australia and Chile of Factors Facing Women Engineers and ICT Professionals in Their Careers

A Comparison Between Australia and Chile of Factors Facing Women Engineers and ICT Professionals in Their Careers
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Author(s): Andrea Soledad Díaz Aranda (Monash University, Australia)and Marjorie A. Jerrard (Monash University, Australia)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 23
Source title: Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Idongesit Williams (Aalborg University, Denmark), Olga Millward (Aalborg University, Denmark)and Roslyn Layton (Aalborg University, Denmark)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7068-4.ch001

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Abstract

Is this a man's world? Surprisingly the 21st century is still struggling with gender discrimination issues in many countries and in many professions. This chapter presents an analysis of the situation facing women professionals working in a developed country, Australia, and in a developing country, Chile, in the engineering/ICT sectors. The approach taken emphasizes the continued existence of inequality in these male-dominated professions based on existing research that shows what continues to be an underrepresentation of women in engineering/ICT. It is expected that the overview of this significant problem of underrepresentation will identify a number of factors at play here and that solutions to the problem will be similar in different countries.

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