Challenges and barriers facing women in the is workforce: How far have we come?

SIGMIS CPR 2011 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 107-112

  Armstrong, Deborah J ^a   Reid, Margaret F ^b   Riemenschneider, Cynthia K ^c   Nelms, Jason E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Gender; Is workforce; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

BARRIERS; GENDER; IS WORKFORCE; QUALITATIVE; WORK ENVIRONMENTS; WORK SCHEDULES; WORK STRESS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 79958704898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1982143.1982184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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