Impact of Women Workforce in the IT Industry Research Report

This research report investigates the impact of women in the IT industry, addressing the declining participation of women and the gender gap in the technology sector. The study explores the background, problem statement, and aims, focusing on assessing the impact of women applicants, examining their participation in IT development, and surveying the reasons for reduced involvement. The report includes a literature review, conceptual framework, and methodology, using interviews with women in technology to gather data on their experiences, challenges, and recommendations for improvement. Findings reveal insights into women's roles, compensation, promotion opportunities, and the influence of various factors on their careers. The report concludes with an analysis of the research findings, a Gantt chart of the research process, and a budget, offering valuable insights into the dynamics of women in the IT workforce and suggesting potential solutions to enhance their presence and success in the field.

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Table of Contents
Organization of the Study...........................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER 1..................................................................................................................................................4
Background.............................................................................................................................................4
Problem Statement.................................................................................................................................4
Justification.............................................................................................................................................5
Aims of the study................................................................................................................................5
Chapter 2.....................................................................................................................................................7
Conceptual Framework and Hypothesis.................................................................................................7
Literature Review....................................................................................................................................8
CHAPTER 3.................................................................................................................................................10
Methodology.........................................................................................................................................10
CHAPTER 4.................................................................................................................................................11
Findings.................................................................................................................................................11
Gantt Chart........................................................................................................................................11
Project Budget and Budget Justification...........................................................................................12
Conclusions...........................................................................................................................................12
References................................................................................................................................................14
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Organization of the Study
 Chapter 1 is the background of the research as outlined in this assignment
 Chapter 2 is the Literature Review of the topic concerning the impact of women in
information technology (IT)
 Chapter 3 is the research methodology of the study, it also includes the data series and
the survey of the sample. In addition, it has data analysis part.
 Chapter 4 presents the findings and analysis of the results, and the Gantt Chart of the
research process as well as the budget, then concludes the research process.
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CHAPTER 1
Background
Female competitors in the technology field have diminished hugely in Silicon Valley likewise in
the innovative ventures. The impact of men has occurred in all the field of mechanical industry.
There is a colossal gap regarding gender in technology, science, construction (engineering), and
mathematics field. As indicated by late measurements discharged the real IT tech comprises of
generally speaking of 24% of female competitors in Silicon Valley. The support of women in a
Nineteenth Century was very nearly 31% yet dropped to the 23% (Ahlam & Nick, 2011). The
enormous gap of the sexual orientation contrasts in the technology business could be
examined. The very number of womenfolk is considerably high when contrasted with male in
the field of information technology.
The inclinations have expanded besides as 80-90% of licenses are just involved by male groups
while 11 percent of womenfolk have licenses in technology patents. The disappointment phase
of ladies in technology ventures is all the more as per the overview directed. The examination
of the best organizations in Silicon Valley was led and discovered that the menfolk were 3
intervals at higher position than for women in administration positions. Silicon Valley is a
computer science center point on the planet yet the support of ladies is less perceived in the
imaginative and advanced arena that drives women as a one-sided personality on the planet.
The global administration delegate in the best field of technology is low when contrasted with
that of women folk with the ability to console the men’s spot (Ashcraft & Breitzman, 2012).
Problem Statement
The decrease of the dot.com period at the dawn of the 21st Century and expanded worldwide
outsourcing of IT occupations has withdrawn the guarantee of appealing employment in IT and
may have sifted through swelled request. Colleges have encountered bring down enrollment,
especially of womenfolk, in majors concerning information technology, despite the effect of
women's movement, where additional ladies move toward man-ruled arenas. While the men
characterize 44% of the IT personnel in the US, just around 34% of the US information
technology workforce is female (Binod & Devi, 2013).
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In the vicinity of 1996 and 2002, ladies in the information technology personnel dropped to
35% from 42%. All the more exasperatingly, women hold just 10 percent of the best IT positions
in the United States and fewer women are ascending the IT authority stepping stool than
before. Such patterns plague internationally regardless of measurements showing that one-
portion of web clients are women and that PC use by women has encountered a consistent
increment over the previous decade. IT, as a field, shows itself differently as PC data
frameworks, management data frameworks, and software engineering degrees.
In spite of the fact that a well-known idea is frequently rising out of universities is that the field
of information technology is exceptionally specialized, behavioral issues and imagination in
critical thinking and configuration are basic achievement factors for IT experts. The more
various the IT working environment and the bigger the pool of ability from which to draw
talent, the more probable IT arrangements will address an expansive scope of issues and the
necessities of an assorted end-client group. The IT calling is missing profitable HR and women
are bypassing compensating profession choices.
Justification
Eden (2013) agrees that the exploration tends to IT workforce issues concerning recruitment
and maintenance. IT teachers and policymakers can assume a part in building up environments
helpful for mechanical vocations. The misperception of what IT experts do and what abilities
they have to succeed can deflect numerous understudies from picking an IT-related major and
along these lines a profession in that field. A portion of the issues might showcase what IT
experts do and what abilities enable them to perform quality task management and
programming development. School area managers can set up arrangements and apportion
assets that help continuous specialized preparing of their educators and instructors.
Aims of the study
The resolution of this exploration is mainly identifying reasons for the deterioration of
applicants in information technology as well as finding ways of boosting the number of women
applicants in information technology. Specifically, the aims are:
a) To assess the impact of women applicants in information technology
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b) To examine women’s participation in the development of information technology
c) To survey the reasons for a reduced involvement of women applicants
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Chapter 2
Conceptual Framework and Hypothesis
The hypothesis for this research project is:
H 1: There are few women in the broad field of information technology.
Dependent Variable Independent Variable
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Number of women candidates in
IT
Women’s participation in
development of IT
Reduced involvement of women
in IT
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Literature Review
The women entering the overall workforce has developed extensively in later a long time. It has
been anticipated that by that roughly 46% of the workforce will be female, and 62% of all
women of working age will have occupations. Women are additionally anticipated that would
contain around three-fifth of the new contestants into the work constrain in this decade. Be
that as it may, women are, and keep on being underrepresented in the data frameworks field,
particularly in places of energy and duty. Women make 31% of PC researchers and include just
32% of frameworks experts, 35% of PC software engineers, 10% of Information System chiefs,
18% of venture pioneers, and 14% of uses development supervisors (Evans, 2011).
There are two related concerns concerning the under-portrayal of women in registering. In the
first place, the limited investment of women in the field of registering may show that practices
inside the field debilitate or keeps women from entering or staying in the calling. These
boundaries may incorporate male-one-sided instructive projects and a male-overwhelmed PC
"culture." In these cases, and others, women have coordinated far from the PC business
(Hewlett et al., 2008). Second, the anticipated statistic moves in the workforce may deliver an
extreme deficiency of PC workforce, unless the investment of women and other
underrepresented gatherings in the occupation, increases altogether.
Despite the fact that exploration has distinguished work and individual components
contributing or obstructing the support and professional achievement of minorities in the
processing field, there is minimal particular observational research on the hindrances looked by
women in the registering field. Various investigations have proposed that minorities, including
women, don't fit into the customary "hierarchical shape," and in that capacity encounter less
ideal work results and lower nature of work-life than white guys.
It was accounted for that women, and minority gatherings might be differentially treated in a
portion of the substantial work encounters, for example, advancement, compensation raises,
end, and cutbacks. Some of these encounters may influence their execution and efficiency,
fulfillment, faithfulness, and their choice to stay or leave the association. Past the issue of
equity and social equity, if women in the IT occupation are being dealt with uniquely in contrast
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to their male partners which makes them leave an association or influences their execution
then this is a significant issue which must be addressed (Johan & Alistair, 2017).
It is by and large perceived that IS workers speak to a profitable asset basic to the fruitful
implementation and utilization of advanced data technology in associations. Laying out the
basic issues confronting the IS calling, iederman, distinguished human asset management as
one of the territories requiring prompt consideration. It was positioned as the fourth most
essential issue confronting the IT field. Further, a current review of IT officials announced that
enhancing the personnel bounced to fifth place from thirteenth.
A wide range of hypothetical points of view on sexual orientation and IT are reflected in late
writing about women's interest in the IT field (Kim et al., 2013). At the most elevated amount,
they fall into two classifications: those that underscore fundamental contrasts between the
genders, and those that de-stress them. Two floods of research got from a view that women
and men have fundamental contrasts – however they arrive at profoundly unique conclusions.
A flood of research has taken a look at gender contrasts in technology acknowledgment with
regards to singular appropriation and maintained use of technology in the working
environment.
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CHAPTER 3
Methodology
The researcher directed top to bottom meetings with 20 women who work in the field of
technology. These women characterize a scope of ages, employment divisions, instructive
foundations, nationalities, and locales of Australia. The meetings were open-finished in form.
Ahead of time of the meetings, every respondent was reached by electronic mail and sent a
document that contained a review of the examination venture, demonstrating the target of the
exploration, the specialists' qualifications and the sorts of inquiries that would be inquired. The
open-finished meetings, which endured around an hour and a half.
Also, they were copied and secured four principal subjects. The primary point was the
individual's statistic data: respondent's age, training, kind of work and current position,
organization and industry. The second subject was data particular to the respondent: work
history, instructive encounters, profession movement and encounters, noteworthy impacts in
life (e.g., occasions, individuals). The following subject included more broad inquiries regarding
sexual orientation and IT. Respondents gave their perspectives on its topic being a male space
and what that implies for their vocation in IT. They additionally discussed social impacts and
boundaries to women in IT. At last, respondents were requested to offer recommendations
concerning how society, the IT calling, and instructive foundations may address the sexual
orientation irregularity in Information Technology.
Compensation and chance of promotion were each deliberate by one thing. The measure of pay
depended on yearly compensation in the present position. Classes extended from beneath
$25,000 to $65,000 or above. To evaluate the chance of promotion, members were requested
to react to the accompanying thing: "How might you rate your odds for advancement to a
higher position at some point amid your profession with the organization?" Responses to this
thing were made on a three-point scale with the accompanying grapples: (1) slight possibility
for advancement; (2) great shot for advancement; and (3) great possibility for advancement
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CHAPTER 4
Findings
The respondents ran in age from mid-twenties to mid-fifties. The most widely recognized fields
of study were software engineering, science, and designing; in addition to a contemplated data
framework. Three of the respondents did not have IT degrees. These respondents could be
categorized as one of three classes. Half of the women were IT professionals working in a scope
of levels and businesses in different parts of Australia. These women drew individually
encounters to offer bits of knowledge about the subjects that were investigated in this
examination. Six of the respondents were scholastics who addressed in data frameworks,
software engineering, and designing. These women offered two points of view on the theme.
One was her understanding of getting into and advancing in the IT field.
The other point of view was her part in getting other women into IT. Four of the respondents
fell into the class of 'spectator.' These women contributed meta-level perceptions and
responses to the rising understandings of the questioner. They were set in this classification by
the righteousness of their position as for IT. Two of these respondents had, themselves led to
look into on sexual orientation and IT. One respondent worked in IT HR. The fourth respondent
in this class was an IT specialist who worked with an expert association to create activities to
advance women in IT. Every one of the members was working and living in Australia when this
investigation was led.
Gantt Chart
Task Name Start Date End Date Duration
Project Proposal August 5, 2017 August 15, 2017 10 days
Literature Review August 16, 2017 August 26, 2017 10 days
Data Collection September 6, 2017 September 16, 2017 10 days
Data Analysis September 17, 2017 September 24, 2017 7 days
Final Report Submission September 25, 2017 October 5, 2017 10 days
Milestones and Deliverables
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August 2017 September 2017 October 2017
Project Proposal
Literature Review
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Final Report Submission
Table 1: Gantt Chart for the Research Project
Project Budget and Budget Justification
The exploration’s budget is $1500 with the intention of completing this assignment in the time
structure as shown in the Gantt chart above. The financial plan is itemized for the resulting
details:
 The Literature Review to be carried out needs the application of material from journals,
textbooks in addition to web material, most of these material is not free of charge.
Hence they will take up to $500.
 Gathering data through questionnaires and assessments consist of transportation costs,
printing costs, in addition to costs regarding posting/mailing. If there is usage of e-mail,
they might end up in the spam folder of the e-mail, spam folders are not usually
effective and therefore questionnaires might be discarded. The researcher would rather
go to the targeted sample personally then gather data concerning the impact of women
in information technology. Moreover, the usage of the post office is feasible at a cost
$500.
 Accessing tables/charts/government statistics for analysis of data, a financial plan is
added at $500 for the analysis of data.
Conclusions
Despite the fact that the present examination gave intriguing discoveries concerning the
vocations of women in the IT field, extra research is required in various territories. As an
exploratory and to a great extent graphic examination, this exploration constrained itself to
bivariate connections of sexual orientation with human capital factors and profession exercises
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