Gender Equality in Software Engineering Education – A Study of Female Participation in Customer-Driven Projects

Anh Nguyen-Duc () and Letizia Jaccheri ()
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Anh Nguyen-Duc: University of South Eastern Norway
Letizia Jaccheri: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

A chapter in Sustainability in Software Engineering and Business Information Management, 2023, pp 39-49 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Gender equality, as a part of SDGs, is gaining research attention due to the desire to promote female participation in the engineering sector. The objective of this work is to enhance the understanding of female students’ participation in software engineering projects to support gender-aware course optimization. Since 2015, we have investigated the activity profiles of female students in terms of software engineering activities in a fourth-year software project course. Empirical evidence has been collected through surveys, structured interviews and project reports from 39 projects. We found that the active activity areas of female students are project management and requirement engineering, while the areas lacking active involvement are architecture and Scrum methodology. While the findings differ from those of some previous studies, they suggest which course and project settings will facilitate the active participation of females in such project courses.

Keywords: Female participation; Gender; Software engineering project course; Longitudinal study; Mixed approach research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32436-9_4

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