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Gender Equality in Software Engineering Education – A Study of Female Participation in Customer-Driven Projects

In: Sustainability in Software Engineering and Business Information Management

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  • Anh Nguyen-Duc

    (University of South Eastern Norway)

  • Letizia Jaccheri

    (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Abstract

Gender equality, as a part of SDGs, is gaining research attention due to the desire to promote female participation in the engineering sector. The objective of this work is to enhance the understanding of female students’ participation in software engineering projects to support gender-aware course optimization. Since 2015, we have investigated the activity profiles of female students in terms of software engineering activities in a fourth-year software project course. Empirical evidence has been collected through surveys, structured interviews and project reports from 39 projects. We found that the active activity areas of female students are project management and requirement engineering, while the areas lacking active involvement are architecture and Scrum methodology. While the findings differ from those of some previous studies, they suggest which course and project settings will facilitate the active participation of females in such project courses.

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  • Anh Nguyen-Duc & Letizia Jaccheri, 2023. "Gender Equality in Software Engineering Education – A Study of Female Participation in Customer-Driven Projects," Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization, in: Varun Gupta & Luis Rubalcaba & Chetna Gupta & Thomas Hanne (ed.), Sustainability in Software Engineering and Business Information Management, pages 39-49, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnichp:978-3-031-32436-9_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32436-9_4
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