Women working in ICT: situation and possibilities of progress in Catalonia and Spain

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Vergés Bosch, Núria
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Freude, Leon
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Almeda, Elisabet
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González Ramos, Ana M.
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2025-01-22T12:02:11Z
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2025-01-22T12:02:11Z
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2021-09
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2025-01-22T12:02:12Z
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0971-8524
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https://hdl.handle.net/2445/217826
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714219
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The ICT sector is becoming a strategic and growing sector in our current societies and economies. However, gender inequalities persist and women's representation in ICT is still low in Catalonia and Spain. In this article, we introduce the situation of women working in ICT and seek to identify the main barriers and oppor- tunities for their progress. We implemented a survey that was answered by 325 women working in ICT in Catalonia. Our results show that women in ICT do not always access ICT jobs from an engineering degree, are satisfied with their jobs and enjoy better salaries than in other sectors, and that some flexi-time measures and other working conditions may play in their favor (...)
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18 p.
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application/pdf
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eng
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Taylor & Francis
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Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2021.1969783
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Gender, Technology and Development, 2021, vol. 25, num.3, p. 275-293
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https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2021.1969783
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(c) Taylor & Francis, 2021
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Articles publicats en revistes (Sociologia)
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Estudis de gènere
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Educació inclusiva
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Dones en la tecnologia
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Gender studies
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Inclusive education
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Women in technology
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Women working in ICT: situation and possibilities of progress in Catalonia and Spain
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion


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