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Many studies demonstrate that there is still a significant gender bias, especially at higher career levels, in many areas including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). We investigated field-dependent, gender-specific…

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Doctoral programs often have high rates of depression, anxiety, isolation, and imposter phenomenon. Consequently, graduating students may feel inadequately prepared for research-focused careers, contributing to an attrition of talent. Prior…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yaniv Yacoby , John Girash , David C. Parkes

It has been observed in many studies that female students in general are unwilling to undertake a course of study in ICT. Recent literature has also pointed out that undermining the prejudices of girls with respect to these disciplines is…

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Context. Women remain significantly underrepresented in software engineering, leading to a lasting gender gap in the software industry. This disparity starts in education and extends into the industry, causing challenges such as hostile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Tatalina Oliveira , Ann Barcomb , Ronnie de Souza Santos , Helda Barros , Maria Teresa Baldassarre , César França

Women comprise the majority of students and early-career scholars in psychology, yet they are less likely to remain active in research over time. This pattern raises a central question: At what stages of academic careers do women…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xinyi Zhao , Anna I. Thoma , Ralph Hertwig , Dirk U. Wulff

Academic fields exhibit substantial levels of gender segregation. To date, most attempts to explain this persistent global phenomenon have relied on limited cross-sections of data from specific countries, fields, or career stages. Here we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Aniko Hannak , Kenneth Joseph , Andrei Cimpian , Daniel B. Larremore

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

An ever-widening workforce gap exists in the global cybersecurity industry but diverse talent is underutilized. The global cybersecurity workforce is only 25% female. Much research exists on the effect of gender bias on the hiring of women…

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Gender bias in computing is a hard problem that has resisted decades of research. One obstacle has been the absence of systematic data that might indicate when gender bias emerged in computing and how it has changed. This article presents a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Thomas J Misa

This case study of a typical U.S. particle physics experiment explores the issues of gender bias and how it affects the academic career advancement prospects of women in the field of physics beyond the postdoctoral level; we use public…

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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…

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Context. Pair programming (PP) has been found to increase student interest in Computer Science, particularly so for women, and would therefore appear to be a way to help remedy their under-representation, which could be partially motivated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Amador Durán , Pablo Fernández , Beatriz Bernárdez , Nathaniel Weinman , Aslı Akalın , Armando Fox

This study aims to enrich and leverage data from the Informatics Europe Higher Education (IEHE) data portal to extract and analyze trends in female participation in Informatics across Europe. The research examines the proportion of female…

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We investigated gender bias in letters of recommendation as a possible cause of the under-representation of women in Experimental Particle Physics (EPP), where about 15% of faculty are female -- well below the 60% level in psychology and…

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A large-scale, up-to-date analysis of Computer Science literature (11.8M papers through 2019) reveals that, if trends from the last 50 years continue, parity between the number of male and female authors will not be reached in this century.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Lucy Lu Wang , Gabriel Stanovsky , Luca Weihs , Oren Etzioni

This research paper adopts a methodology by conducting a thorough literature review to uncover the essential prerequisites for achieving a prosperous career in the field of Information Security (IS). The primary objective is to increase…

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Efforts to build the workforce in support of the second quantum revolution are growing, including the creation of education programs that will prepare students for jobs in this area. We surveyed 186 undergraduate students with majors across…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-04-05 Jessica L. Rosenberg , Nancy Holincheck , Michele Colandene

Scientific novelty is the essential driving force for research breakthroughs and innovation. However, little is known about how early-career scientists pursue novel research paths, and the gender disparities in this process. To address this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-09 Meijun Liu , Zihan Xie , Alex Jie Yang , Chao Yu , Jian Xu , Ying Ding , Yi Bu

We study the influence that research environments have in shaping careers of early-career faculty in terms of their research portfolio. We find that departments exert an attractive force over early-career newcomer faculty, who after their…

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