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This paper investigates gender discrimination and its underlying drivers on a prominent Chinese online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform. While existing studies on P2P lending focus on disparate treatment (DT), DT narrowly recognizes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xudong Shen , Tianhui Tan , Tuan Q. Phan , Jussi Keppo

The rapid advancement of AI systems necessitates high-quality, sustainable code to ensure reliability and mitigate risks such as bias and technical debt. However, the underrepresentation of women in software engineering raises concerns…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Shamse Tasnim Cynthia , Banani Roy

Programming is a valuable skill in the labor market, making the underrepresentation of women in computing an increasingly important issue. Online question and answer platforms serve a dual purpose in this field: they form a body of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Anna May , Johannes Wachs , Aniko Hannak

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science (DS) become pervasive, addressing gender disparities and diversity gaps in their workforce is urgent. These rapidly evolving fields have been further impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Genoveva Vargas-Solar

The growing inequality in gig work between workers and platforms has become a critical social issue as gig work plays an increasingly prominent role in the future of work. The AI inequality is caused by (1) the technology divide in who has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Toby Jia-Jun Li , Yuwen Lu , Jaylexia Clark , Meng Chen , Victor Cox , Meng Jiang , Yang Yang , Tamara Kay , Danielle Wood , Jay Brockman

Online social media are information resources that can have a transformative power in society. While the Web was envisioned as an equalizing force that allows everyone to access information, the digital divide prevents large amounts of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-26 David Garcia , Yonas Mitike Kassa , Angel Cuevas , Manuel Cebrian , Esteban Moro , Iyad Rahwan , Ruben Cuevas

Conversations around diversity and inclusion in software engineering often focus on gender and racial disparities. However, the State of Devs 2025 survey with 8,717 participants revealed that other forms of discrimination are similarly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Shalini Chakraborty , Sebastian Baltes

We advance gender-inclusive research within the CSCW field by investigating the long-term gendered experiences of online freelancers on digital labor platforms. The prevalence of gender-based inequalities has attracted significant attention…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Pyeonghwa Kim , Steve Sawyer , Michael Dunn

Recent studies show that gender diversity in IT teams has a positive impact on the software development process. However, there is still a great gender inequality. The aim of our study was to examine how the working atmosphere depends on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Kelly Blincoe , Olga Springer , Michal R. Wrobel

The gender gap is a significant concern facing the software industry as the development becomes more geographically distributed. Widely shared reports indicate that gender differences may be specific to each region. However, how complete…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Gede Artha Azriadi Prana , Denae Ford , Ayushi Rastogi , David Lo , Rahul Purandare , Nachiappan Nagappan

The effect of gender diversity in open source communities has gained increasing attention from practitioners and researchers. For instance, organizations such as the Python Software Foundation and the OpenStack Foundation started actions to…

Online social networks have become a crucial medium to disseminate the latest political, commercial, and social information. Users with high visibility are often selected as seeds to spread information and affect their adoption in target…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ya-Wen Teng , Hsi-Wen Chen , De-Nian Yang , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet , Ting-Wei Li , Lydia Chen

Diffusion of ICTs provide possibilities for women empowerment by greater participation and enhanced gender-based digital equality. However, a critical analysis reveals that as ICT diffusion widens, there is a persistent threat of widening…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Abhipsa Pal , Rahul De'

Digital platforms, including social networks, are major sources of economic information. Evidence suggests that digital platforms display different socioeconomic opportunities to demographic groups. Our work addresses this issue by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Sara Kingsley , Clara Wang , Alex Mikhalenko , Proteeti Sinha , Chinmay Kulkarni

We study of millions of scientific, technological, and artistic innovations and find that the innovation gap faced by women is far from universal. No gap exists for conventional innovations. Rather, the gap is pervasively rooted in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tara Sowrirajan , Ryan Whalen , Brian Uzzi

Gender disparity in science is one of the most focused debating points among authorities and the scientific community. Over the last few decades, numerous initiatives have endeavored to accelerate gender equity in academia and research…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Anahita Hajibabaei , Andrea Schiffauerova , Ashkan Ebadi

Recommendation algorithms have become the dominant mechanism for information distribution on digital platforms, profoundly shaping personalized information consumption environments. However, gender bias, as a significant form of algorithmic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jipeng Tan , Weifeng Zhang , Ye Wu , Jialin Guo , Yong Min

Information about gender differences in interests is necessary to disentangle the effects of discrimination and choice when gender inequalities occur, such as in employment. This article assesses gender differences in interests within the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Mike Thelwall , Emma Stuart

This paper aims to evaluate how changing patterns of sectoral gender segregation play a role in accounting for women's employment contracts and wages in the UK between 2005 and 2020. We then study wage differentials in gender-specific…

General Economics · Economics 2024-12-31 Riccardo Leoncini , Mariele Macaluso , Annalivia Polselli

Algorithmic systems such as search engines and information retrieval platforms significantly influence academic visibility and the dissemination of knowledge. Despite assumptions of neutrality, these systems can reproduce or reinforce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Stefanie Urchs , Veronika Thurner , Matthias Aßenmacher , Ludwig Bothmann , Christian Heumann , Stephanie Thiemichen