Educating IT professionals for work in Ireland: an emerging post-industrial country
Global information technology education
Leapfrogging an IT labor force: multinational and indigenous perspectives
Journal of Global Information Management - Special issue on global management of information technology human resources
Communications of the ACM
Mapping information-sector work to the work force
Communications of the ACM
The Culture of an Information Economy: Influences and Impacts in the Republic of Ireland
The Culture of an Information Economy: Influences and Impacts in the Republic of Ireland
Rise of the Network Society
Proceedings of the IFIP TC9/WG9.1 Fifth International Conference on Woman, Work and Computerization: Breaking Old Boundaries - Building New Forms
Understanding the under representation of women in IT: toward a theory of individual differences
Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Careers, culture, and ethics in a networked environment
Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond
Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond
The influence of environmental context on women in the IT workforce
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
Cross-cultural influences on women in the IT workforce
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
Encyclopedia of Gender And Information Technology
Encyclopedia of Gender And Information Technology
What do women want?: an investigation of career anchors among women in the IT workforce
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research: The global information technology workforce
Understanding the "Mommy Tracks": A Framework for Analyzing Work-Family Balance in the IT Workforce
Information Resources Management Journal
Taking stock of research on gender and the IT workforce
Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Management Information System's 48th annual conference on Computer personnel research on Computer personnel research
Understanding underrepresentation in IT through intersectionality
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Corporate career presences on social network sites: an analysis of hedonic and utilitarian value
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Theoretical approaches to gender and IT: examining some Australian evidence
Information Systems Journal
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In an effort to better understand the under- representation of women within the IT profession, one promising line of investigation is the influence of factors in the socio-cultural environment. In order to examine this topic, we draw on data from a multi-year field study of women IT professionals in three regions of the U.S.: Massachusetts, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. We employ Trauth's (2000) conceptual framework of environmental influences on the development of a region's information economy to consider economic and cultural influences on women's recruitment and retention in the IT field. The findings reveal a range of influences and a wide variety of responses to them. The contribution of this research to theoretical understanding is twofold. First, we demonstrate that socio-cultural factors serve as both barriers to and facilitators of women's recruitment and retention in the IT profession. This suggests the need for investigations of not just women themselves, but also of the societal environments within which they grow up, live and work. Second, we demonstrate that there is not one unilateral set of environment factors that can explain women's under-representation. Rather, a combination of differing regional influences and individual responses to them is in evidence. This finding of variability both among environmental influences and among women's responses to them provides empirical support for ongoing theory development efforts regarding the role of individual differences in explaining women's under-representation in IT