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Gender equality in software engineering: extended abstract

Published: 28 May 2018 Publication History

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This is the collected work of four female software engineers and myself. Their writing describes their lived experiences in software engineering and as mothers of children in school, while my own describes my lived experience of teaching computing to my children and their peers in school, and in clubs and community events outside of school. The four female engineers, who had the bandwidth to write at this time, include different levels of seniority and experience; an engineer who has come to software engineering late, after a non-computing education; and software engineers who have taken up leadership roles in project management. The views I express are based on my independent research as part of my self-funded PhD in Educational Research with the University of Cumbria. The author of the paper is identifiable as the male engineer, while the writing of the four female engineers is presented anonymously.

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GE '18: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering
May 2018
62 pages
ISBN:9781450357388
DOI:10.1145/3195570
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  • (2019)Gender balance in computer science and engineering in Italian universitiesProceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture - Volume 210.1145/3344948.3344966(82-87)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2019
  • (2019)Gender diversity and women in software teamsProceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society10.1109/ICSE-SEIS.2019.00010(11-20)Online publication date: 25-May-2019

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