Tracking global gender gaps in information technology using online data
Leveraging novel, aggregate data on user counts from the world’s largest professional networking platform, we show how men generally outnumber women in the information technology (IT) sector on the platform. Gender gaps are largest in low and lower-middle income countries, and in IT subdomains focus...
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International Telecommunication Union
2020
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| author | Verkroost, FCJ Kashyap, R Garimella, K Weber, I Zagheni, E |
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| description | Leveraging novel, aggregate data on user counts from the world’s largest professional networking platform, we show how men generally outnumber women in the information technology (IT) sector on the platform. Gender gaps are largest in low and lower-middle income countries, and in IT subdomains focused on computer programming rather than communications and services. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6cca777b-2521-4bc0-8f13-d1b6b6c50c1e2022-03-26T19:13:26ZTracking global gender gaps in information technology using online dataJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6cca777b-2521-4bc0-8f13-d1b6b6c50c1eEnglishSymplectic ElementsInternational Telecommunication Union2020Verkroost, FCJKashyap, RGarimella, KWeber, IZagheni, ELeveraging novel, aggregate data on user counts from the world’s largest professional networking platform, we show how men generally outnumber women in the information technology (IT) sector on the platform. Gender gaps are largest in low and lower-middle income countries, and in IT subdomains focused on computer programming rather than communications and services. |
| spellingShingle | Verkroost, FCJ Kashyap, R Garimella, K Weber, I Zagheni, E Tracking global gender gaps in information technology using online data |
| title | Tracking global gender gaps in information technology using online data |
| title_full | Tracking global gender gaps in information technology using online data |
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| title_short | Tracking global gender gaps in information technology using online data |
| title_sort | tracking global gender gaps in information technology using online data |
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