The incredible shrinking pipeline
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Artificial knowing: gender and the thinking machine
Artificial knowing: gender and the thinking machine
Technophobia: The Psychological Impact of Information Technology
Technophobia: The Psychological Impact of Information Technology
Does gender matter in computer ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
Computers
Cyberstalking and Internet pornography: Gender and the gaze
Ethics and Information Technology
Uncovering student values for hiring in the software industry
Proceedings of the third international workshop on Computing education research
Uncovering student values for hiring in the software industry
Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC)
Technology scruples: why intimidation will not save the recording industry and how enchantment might
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Gender and diversity in hiring software professionals: what do students say?
ICER '08 Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research
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This paper reviews the relatively small body of work in computer ethics which looks at the question of whether gender makes any difference to ethical decisions. There are two strands of writing on gender and computer ethics. The first focuses on problems of women's access to computer technology; the second concentrates on whether there are differences between men and women's ethical decision making in relation to information and computing technologies (ICTs). I criticize the latter area, arguing that such studies survey student audiences, that they emphasize the result of an ethical decision over the process of arriving at the decision, that they are problematic in relation to research methodology and that they are undertheorized. Given that traditional ethical theories largely ignore gender, I offer a gender based ethics in terms of feminist ethics as the best place to look for theoretical substance. The paper concludes by considering how feminist ethics can be combined with empirical studies that emphasize observation and interviewing in order to move gender and computer ethics onward from statistical studies of men's and women's ethical decisions toward more substantially theorized studies of areas in computer ethics which have gender implications, such as privacy and power.