Gender equality in information technology processes: a systematic mapping study

Autor: J. David Patón-Romero, Sunniva Block, Claudia Ayala, Letizia Jaccheri
Přispěvatelé: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Serveis i Sistemes d'Informació, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. inSSIDE - integrated Software, Services, Information and Data Engineering
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ISBN: 9783031280726
Popis: Information Technology (IT) plays a key role in the world we live in. As such, its relation to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) stated by the United Nations to improve lives and health of the people and the planet is inexorable. In particular, the SDG 5 aims to enforce gender equality and states 9 Targets that drive the actions to achieve such goals. The lack of women within IT has been a concern for several years. In this context, the objective of this study is to get an overview of the state of the art on gender equality in IT processes. To do so, we conducted a Systematic Mapping Study to investigate the addressed targets, challenges, and potential best practices that have been put forward so far. The results we have obtained demonstrate the novelty of this field, as well as a set of opportunities and challenges that currently exist in this regard, such as the lack of best practices to address gender equality in IT processes and the need to develop proposals that solve this problem. All of this can be used as a starting point to identify open issues that help to promote research on this field and promote and enhance best practices towards a more socially sustainable basis for gender equality in and by IT. This work is result of a postdoc from the ERCIM “Alain Bensoussan” Fellowship Program conducted at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). This research is also part of the COST Action - European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics project (CA19122), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Program of the European Union.
Databáze: OpenAIRE