Selected determinants of digital transformation and their influence on the number of women in the ICT sector

Hana Krchová () and Katarína Švejnová Höesová ()
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Hana Krchová: Pan-European University, Slovakia
Katarína Švejnová Höesová: Bratislava University of Economics and Management, Slovakia

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2021, vol. 8, issue 4, 524-535

Abstract: Digital transformation offers a great opportunity for the growth of economies and societies across countries around the world. This digital transformation is leading to very rapid growth in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector. ICT currently faces two main challenges. The first problem is the lack of ICT professionals and the second significant problem is the under-representation of women among them. Our article deals with the issue of the influence of selected factors on the increase of women employed in ICT. In our survey, we focused on the influence of the following factors: The amount of GDP resulting from the ICT sector, the average annual wage, the gender gap, the number of employed women, and the number of women who work in ICT and are educated in ICT. We tested these variables on data from the V4 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) for the period 2008-2018. Our aim was to find out whether the mentioned Factors are statistically significant and what is their influence on the number of employed women in the ICT sector so that it is possible to positively influence their amount as much as possible.

Keywords: digital transformation; employment of women; gender gap; ICT sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 H43 M15 O22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2021.8.4(31)

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