TY - GEN
T1 - What do women want?
T2 - 45th Annual Computer Personnel Research Conference, ACM SIGMIS CPR 2007
AU - Quesenberry, Jeria L.
AU - Trauth, Eileen M.
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - In an attempt to address the underrepresentation of women in the information technology (IT) workforce it is important to understand the values and motivations of female professionals. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to examine career anchors of women in the IT workforce and how these factors are manifested in their careers. In doing so, we examine data from a field study of 92 female IT practitioners. Three important findings resulted from this exploration. First, technical competence and managerial competence are mutually exclusive. Second, a combination of career anchors for a given individual can be found. Third, career anchors vary in terms of temporal characteristics.
AB - In an attempt to address the underrepresentation of women in the information technology (IT) workforce it is important to understand the values and motivations of female professionals. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to examine career anchors of women in the IT workforce and how these factors are manifested in their careers. In doing so, we examine data from a field study of 92 female IT practitioners. Three important findings resulted from this exploration. First, technical competence and managerial competence are mutually exclusive. Second, a combination of career anchors for a given individual can be found. Third, career anchors vary in terms of temporal characteristics.
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U2 - 10.1145/1235000.1235030
DO - 10.1145/1235000.1235030
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:57349093999
SN - 9781595936417
T3 - SIGMIS-CPR 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference: The Global Information Technology Workforce
SP - 122
EP - 127
BT - SIGMIS-CPR 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference
Y2 - 19 April 2007 through 21 April 2007
ER -