Career patterns for IT engineering graduates

Line Holth, Abdullah Almasri and Lena Gonäs
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Line Holth: Karlstad University, Sweden
Abdullah Almasri: Karlstad University, Sweden
Lena Gonäs: Karlstad University, Sweden; Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2013, vol. 34, issue 3, 519-535

Abstract: Women constitute a clear minority in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) in higher education as well as in the job market. At the same time, this field is expected to have a shortage of qualified people in the future. Do women and men engineering graduates have the same career opportunities? This article problematizes the relationship between higher education in engineering and opportunities on the job market. The results show that men reach higher positions to a greater extent than women, and that women remain in low-qualification jobs to a greater extent than men.

Keywords: Gender segregation; higher education; information and communications technology (ICT); labour market positions; multilevel analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X13492832

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