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The incredible shrinking pipeline
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People, business and IT skills: the perspective of women in the IT industry
SIGCPR '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Nerd Work: attractors and barriers perceived by students entering the IT field
SIGCPR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Breaking and entering the male domain. Women in the IT industry
SIGCPR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace
Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace
The Cultures of Computing
Brothers
Recruiting and retaining women in undergraduate computing majors
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - Women and Computing
Integrity of Intelligence: A Bill of Rights for the Information Age
Integrity of Intelligence: A Bill of Rights for the Information Age
Proceedings of the IFIP TC9/WG9.1 Seventh International Conference on Woman, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future
Absent Friends? The Gender Dimension in Information Systems Research
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8/WG8.2 Working Conference on Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: The Social and Organizational Perspective
Dichotomous Thinking, Women, and Technology
Proceedings of the IFIP TC9/WG9.1 Fifth International Conference on Woman, Work and Computerization: Breaking Old Boundaries - Building New Forms
The Globalization of Gender in IT
Proceedings of the IFIP TC9/WG9.1 Seventh International Conference on Woman, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future
Proceedings of the IFIP TC9/WG9.1 Seventh International Conference on Woman, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future
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Data is presented from three cases studies of three small IT-focused businesses that were created and failed within the context of the Dot-Com era (1996-2001). This era can be characterized as a time in which the IT industry was facing an acute shortage of employees and yet, as the analysis shows, chose to create a culture that hired a gender, racially, ethnically, and culturally homogeneous workforce. From evidence drawn from interviews, observations, self-reported organizational charts and time diaries, I argue that the organizational cultures, created by the owners and managers of these three companies, made it nearly impossible for female employees to be hired trained and retained.. I also claim that once a small number of female employees were hired, the organizational culture made the work environment so hostile, it drove these employees to leave and seek alternative employment. The owners and managers of these three IT companies used the myths that were readily available in the wider American culture of the time to construct an organizational culture that would motivate and manipulate their employees. This culture may have satisfied the immediate needs of the Dot Com industry but were disastrous for traditional protectionist measures that protected women in the workforce, recruited and retained women in the workforce, and make the IT workplace hospitable to a variety of people, including women. The conclusions that I draw from this case study are that in the case of this business, the Dot-Com Bubble did more to impede entrance to women into the IT workforce than to facilitate it.