What attracts women to the IT field? The first process of occupational socialization

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1994-2002

  Guzman, Indira R ^a   Sharif, Raed M ^a   Blanchard, Tyler J ^a   Ellis, George S ^a   Stanton, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus Groups; IT Workforce; Occupational Socialization; Recruitment in IT; Women in IT

Indexed keywords

FOCUS GROUPS; IT WORKFORCE; OCCUPATIONAL SOCIALIZATION; RECRUITMENT IN IT; WOMEN IN IT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STUDENTS;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84869809508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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