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- Title
- Geeks, girls and IT courses: patterns of participation
- Author(s)
- McKay, Judy; Lang, Catherine; Lewis, Sue
- Abstract
- This paper examines recent trends in declining enrolments in higher education IT courses through a gender lens. Early analysis of a survey on undergraduate students enrolled in IT degree courses at an Australian University of Technology shows a distinct pattern in the parental backgrounds of women in ICT, and also a noticeable variance in the use of IT between female students and male students. While this study supports earlier studies, some of these trends are contrary to prior research in this field and provides further insight into this problematic issue.
- Publication Type
- Conference paper
- Research Centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
- Source
- Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Informatics Education and Research (ICIER), Las Vegas, United States , Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 09-11 December 2005, pp. 373-384
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Keyword(s)
- Computer science studies; Female undergraduate students; Information technology education; Women in information technology
- Publisher
- International Academy of Information Managers
- Peer Reviewed
