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

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 26-41

  Joshi, K D ^a   Schmidt, Nancy L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; IS Image; IT Education; IT Personnel; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014580976     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1185335.1185343     Document Type: Article

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