Celebrating heterogeneity? A survey of female ICT professionals in England

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 338-357

  Griffiths, Marie ^a   Moore, Karenza ^b   Richardson, Helen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Information Systems (IS)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Female ICT professionals; Heterogeneity; Masculinized domain

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547273443     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701409945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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