Gender in end-user software engineering

Authors:
Margaret Burnett;Susan Wiedenbeck;Valentina Grigoreanu;Neeraja Subrahmaniyan;Laura Beckwith;Cory Kissinger
Affiliations:
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA;Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA;Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA;Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA;Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on End-user software engineering
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe research that reports gender differences in usage of software engineering tools by end-user programmers. We connect these findings with possible explanations based on theories from other disciplines, and then add to that our recent results that these differences go deeper than software engineering tool usage to software engineering strategies. We enumerate the strategies that work better for males and the ones that work better for females, and discuss implications and possible directions for follow-up.