Is the Information Systems Profession Gendered? Characterization of IS Professionals and IS Careers

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-9

  Joshi, Kshiti ^a   Schmidt, Nancy L ^a   Kuhn, Kristine M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; IT Education; IT Personnel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS);

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0141929378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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