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Software engineering remains male-dominated despite efforts to attract and retain women. Many leave the field due to limited opportunities, unfair treatment, and challenging workplace cultures. Examining university life and choices is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Cristina Martinez Montes , Jonna Johansson , Emrik Dunvald

Technology is a cornerstone of modern life, yet the software engineering field struggles to reflect the diversity of contemporary society. This lack of diversity and inclusivity within the software industry can be traced back to limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ronnie de Souza Santos , Italo Santos , Robson Santos , Cleyton Magalhaes

This study presents an automated bibliometric analysis of 6569 research papers published in thirteen Brazilian Computer Science Society (SBC) conferences from 1999 to 2021. Our primary goal was to gather data to understand the gender…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Natália Dal Pizzol , Eduardo Dos Santos Barbosa , Soraia Raupp Musse

In recent decades, computer science (CS) has undergone remarkable growth and diversification. Creating attractive, social, or hands-on games has already been identified as a possible approach to get teenagers and young adults interested in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Michael Holly , Lisa Habich , Maria Seiser , Florian Glawogger , Kevin Innerebner , Sandra Kupsa , Philipp Einwallner , Johanna Pirker

We survey the treatment of sex and gender in the Computer Graphics research literature from an algorithmic fairness perspective. The established practices on the use of gender and sex in our community are scientifically incorrect and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Ana Dodik , Silvia Sellán , Theodore Kim , Amanda Phillips

Technology plays a crucial role in people's lives. However, software engineering discriminates against individuals from underrepresented groups in several ways, either through algorithms that produce biased outcomes or for the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ronnie de Souza Santos , Brody Stuart-Verner , Cleyton de Magalhaes

Software engineering is not only about technical solutions. To a large extent, it is also concerned with organizational issues, project management, and human behavior. There are serious gender issues that can severely limit the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Karina Kohl , Rafael Prikladnicki

Recently, workforce shortage has become a popular issue in information technology (IT). One solution to increasing the workforce supply is to increase the number of female IT professionals. This is because there is gender imbalance in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Yuriko Takatsuka , Yukasa Murakami , Masateru Tsunoda , Masahide Nakamura

Concerns about representation in computing within the U.S. have driven numerous activities to broaden participation. Assessment of the impact of these efforts and, indeed, a clear assessment of the actual "problem" being addressed are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Valerie Barr , Carla E. Brodley , Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

Even with recent increases in enrollments, computer science departments in the United States are not producing the number of graduates that the computing workforce needs, an issue that impacts the scientific and economic growth of our…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Monica Babes-Vroman , Andrew Tjang , Thu D. Nguyen

Gender is a hot topic in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Work has run the gamut, from assessing how we embed gender in our computational creations to correcting systemic sexism, online and off. While gender is often framed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Katie Seaborn

The underrepresentation of women in Computer Science and Engineering is a pervasive issue, impacting the enrolment and graduation rates of female students as well as the presence of women in leadership positions in academia and industry.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Paloma Díaz , Paula Alexandra Silva , Katja Tuma

Gender equity remains a major issue facing the field of planetary science, and there is broad interest in addressing gender disparities within space science and related disciplines. Many studies of these topics have been performed by…

Modern society is permeated with computers, and the software that controls them can have latent, long-term, and immediate effects that reach far beyond the actual users of these systems. This places researchers in Computer Science and…

General Literature · Computer Science 2007-06-05 David R. Wright

Addressing women's under-representation in the software industry, a widely recognized concern, requires attracting as well as retaining more women. Hearing from women practitioners, particularly those positioned in multi-cultural settings,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Bianca Trinkenreich , Ricardo Britto , Marco Aurelio Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

It is essential to discuss the role, difficulties, and opportunities concerning people of different gender in the field of software engineering research, education, and industry. Although some literature reviews address software engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Hironori Washizaki

Computer science (CS) education needs to evolve to support software and artificial intelligence (AI) systems engineering, and it needs to happen now -- precisely because the core intellectual contributions of CS have never been more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Chandra N. Sekharan , George K. Thiruvathukal

Gender imbalance in computing education is a well-known issue around the world. The term "leaky pipeline" is often used to describe the lack of retention of women before they progress to senior roles. Numerous initiatives have targeted the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Alina Berry , Susan McKeever , Brenda Murphy , Sarah Jane Delany

Despite significant improvements over the last few generations, the discipline of mathematics still counts a disproportionately small number of women among its practitioners. These women are underrepresented as conference speakers, even…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Greg Martin

This paper examines the historical dimension of gender bias in the US computing workforce. It offers new quantitative data on the computing workforce prior to the availability of US Census data in the 1970s. Computer user groups (including…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Thomas J. Misa