Career Choice and Gendered Perceptions of IT – A Nexus Analytic Inquiry

Fanny Vainionpää (), Marianne Kinnula (), Netta Iivari () and Tonja Molin-Juustila ()
Additional contact information
Fanny Vainionpää: University of Oulu
Marianne Kinnula: University of Oulu
Netta Iivari: University of Oulu
Tonja Molin-Juustila: University of Oulu

A chapter in Advances in Information Systems Development, 2020, pp 37-56 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Girls’ disinterest in Information Technology (IT) careers is a persisting problem. We wanted to examine girls’ perceptions of the IT field as well as factors shaping their career choices, to find ways girls might see IT/Information Systems careers as more interesting. For this purpose, we interviewed Finnish senior high school students, as senior high school is the last opportunity to influence girls’ career choice in higher education. In addition, we asked senior high school IT teachers about IT education and their perceptions of students’ relations to IT. Using nexus analysis as a sensitizing device, we focused on various discourses circulating around, different actors and their relations, as well as experience and background related matters that affect girls’ career choice. Surprisingly gendered understandings of the IT field and career choices were still prevalent among the studied young people, and this supports educational and occupational segregation.

Keywords: IS education; IT use; IT education; Gender balance; Girls in tech; Gendering; Career choice; Segregation; Nexus analysis; Historical body; Interaction order; Teachers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:lnichp:978-3-030-49644-9_3

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030496449

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49644-9_3

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().