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| Title: | Gender Consciousness of IT Students |
| Authors: | Herring, Susan
Marken, James |
| Keywords: | Gender consciousness
Self-confidence
Self-efficacy |
| Issue Date: | 29-Sep-2007 |
| Abstract: | This study investigated the effects of gender consciousness—defined as the recognition that one’s physical sex shapes one’s relationship to the political world—among students pursuing IT degrees at five U.S. universities, as part of the Indiana University IT Workforce Project. Based on 136 in-depth face-to-face interviews, we assessed the overall level of gender consciousness among the IT students—proposing a new distinction between awareness of gender inequity and concern about such inequity—and identified characteristics of students with varying levels of gender consciousness. We then considered the relationship between level of gender consciousness and students’ self-confidence and ambition as regards their education and future IT careers. The findings suggest that gender consciousness is related to lived experience and has positive implications, through the mediating variable of self-efficacy, for women IT students’ educational and professional success. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2378/279 |
| Appears in Collections: | SI C 01: Gender
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