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By the year 2000, it is estimated that over 80% of the jobs within the UK will involve the use of Information Technology. Concern has been expressed by academia and industry regarding the decrease in the number of women entering IT related courses and subsequently the Software Engineering profession — a phenomenon which has occurred since the early 1980s. Britain is falling well behind other countries — “only 23% of IT employees in the UK are women, compared with 39% in France, 45% in the US and 55% in Singapore” [Acey95]. The Software Engineering profession needs to attract more women to help counterbalance the incorrect, stereotyped perceptions of the typical computer professional, but even the term “engineer” has the reverse effect.
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Myers, C., Hall, T., Pitt, D. (1997). But isn’t Computing Boring?. In: Myers, C., Hall, T., Pitt, D. (eds) The Responsible Software Engineer. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0923-5_20
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