Gender differences in programming?

Authors:
Janet Carter;Tony Jenkins
Affiliations:
University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, UK;University of Leeds, W Yorks, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2002

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Abstract

This paper presents the findings of an interactive poster of the same name that was displayed at two Computer Science Education conferences during the summer of 2001. Delegates were presented with fragments of code written by first year Computer Science undergraduates and were asked to determine whether the code authors were male or female. The findings suggest that not only is it not possible to determine the gender of the author, but that the gender stereotyped 'clues' relied upon as a basis for the determination are unreliable predictors.