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This presentation is based on a paper published during my final year of a BA degree (2012). It investigated why there are low numbers of women in IT and what can be done in third-level institutions to address that problem.
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Females in ITRecruitment and Retention
Sally Mc Hugh
Dept. of Information Technology and Archaeology
3BA
April 2nd 2012
Why?
• Low numbers of females in Computer related courses
What?
• Can be done to recruit
• Can be done to retain
Ireland Today
HEA Statistics: Women in Higher
Education
Computer Science:
6% NUIG to 21% UCC
Arts:
57% UCD - 66% DCU
U.S. 1989 - 2008
Gender Differences
Maths.
Sciences
72.00 74.00 76.00 78.00 80.00 82.00 84.00 86.00 88.00 90.00 92.00
Leaving Certificate 2010/11
Boys Girls
I don’t think I was good enough!
The test was crap!
Educational ObjectivesET 2020
Create a competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in Europe
15 % increase in graduates in Maths, Science and Technology
Gender imbalance in these subjects to be reduced
Evolution
Revolution
Education is where it must begin
Recruitment Reaching out to disciplines that already have a high
concentration of women
NUI Galway Arts 2011 – 63.25% female
Actively recruit
Retention
Program designed towards females’ educational needs
Role models
Motivated teachers
Peer support
Mentoring – Teaching assistants
The Future?
Universities can create changes
Understanding the underlying problems
Developing strategies
“My slogan is: Computing is too important to be left to men.”
Karen Sparck-Jones: Pioneer in information retrievaland natural language processing. 1935–2007
Thank you for listening
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