A comparison between Australia and Chile of factors facing women engineers and ICT professionals in their careers

Andrea Soledad Diaz Aranda; Marjorie A Jerrard

A comparison between Australia and Chile of factors facing women engineers and ICT professionals in their careers

Andrea Soledad Diaz Aranda, Marjorie A Jerrard

Department of Management

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Abstract

Is this a man’s world? Surprisingly the 21st century is still struggling with gender discrimination issues in many countries and in many professions. This chapter presents an analysis of the situation facing women professionals working in a developed country, Australia, and in a developing country, Chile, in the engineering/ICT sectors. The approach taken emphasizes the continued existence of inequality in these male-dominated professions based on existing research that shows what continues to be an underrepresentation of women in engineering/ICT. It is expected that the overview of this significant problem of underrepresentation will identify a number of factors at play here and that solutions to the problem will be similar in different countries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT
Editors	Idongesit Williams, Olga Millward, Roslyn Layton
Place of Publication	Hershey PA USA
Publisher	IGI Global
Chapter	1
Pages	1-23
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9781522570691
ISBN (Print)	9781522570684
Publication status	Published - 2019

Publication series

Name	Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT)
Publisher	IGI Global
ISSN (Print)	2328-1613
ISSN (Electronic)	2328-1324

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Diaz Aranda, Andrea Soledad ; Jerrard, Marjorie A. / A comparison between Australia and Chile of factors facing women engineers and ICT professionals in their careers. Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT. editor / Idongesit Williams ; Olga Millward ; Roslyn Layton. Hershey PA USA : IGI Global, 2019. pp. 1-23 (Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT)).

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A comparison between Australia and Chile of factors facing women engineers and ICT professionals in their careers. / Diaz Aranda, Andrea Soledad; Jerrard, Marjorie A.
Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT. ed. / Idongesit Williams; Olga Millward; Roslyn Layton. Hershey PA USA: IGI Global, 2019. p. 1-23 (Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT)).

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