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GENDER & TECHNOLOGY

This project has the long-term objective of developing guidelines for the design of human computer interfaces that appeal to underrepresented groups of users in the technology market, both women and minorities. The short-term objective is to discover how women can incorporate technology into their everyday academic experience. Funded by a Strategic Resource Opportunity Analysis (SROA) grant at Rutgers University, the study is using a multi-method approach to learn how female students are using technology in their academic work and how their technology use differs from their male colleagues. The research is also investigating the types of computer interfaces that female students prefer and the kind of computer design and devices they would like to use in the future.

This project is a collaboration of scholars at Rutgers University .  For more information, please visit a website dedicated to this topic at: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~clairemc/gentech_summary_htm

A qualitative study on the factors that influence men and women to choose information technology related majors and careers can be found here:

McInerney, C.R., DiDonato, N. & Giagnacova, R., & O’Donnel, A. (2008). Factors that influence undergraduate students in the choice of information technology majors and careers. Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal, 24 (2), 35 – 53.

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