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Gender and employability patterns amongst UK ICT graduates: how leaky is the pipeline?
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posted on 2023-06-08, 13:28 authored by Ruth WoodfieldThis chapter explores the employment patterns of male and female Computer Science graduates in the UK. It is shown that women Computer Science graduates fare less well than men on a variety of mea- sures of employment success, despite being more likely to leave university with a better degree. Their performance is compared to that of women from a comparable scientific and male-dominated discipline: engineering. The results show that women graduates from Computer Science degrees enjoy less suc- cess in securing graduate-level work than that experienced by other groups of women, including those graduating from engineering. Most notably, women computer science graduates are less likely to secure graduate-level work within the work sphere that their degree has prepared them for: ICT. The utility of explanations focusing on individual preferences, versus those focusing on extra-individual, demand-side factors, is discussed in the context of the findings.
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IGI GlobalPublisher URL
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184-199Pages
348.0Book title
Globalization, technology diffusion and gender disparity: social impacts of ICTsPlace of publication
Hershey, PAISBN
9781466600201Department affiliated with
- Sociology and Criminology Publications
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Theo van der Weide, Rekha PandeLegacy Posted Date
2012-11-02First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-03-22Usage metrics
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