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Pipped at the Post: Knowledge Gaps and Expected Low Parental IT Competence Ratings Affect Young Women's Awakening Interest in Professional Careers in Information Science.

ABSTRACT: Although many jobs in today's information science allow favorable work-life-schedules for women, they still hesitate to enter this territory. In a study based on individual interviews with N = 134 students aged 14-18 years, who visited the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, we collected data on the students' socialization in information and communication technology (ICT), on their self-rated ICT competence, their working knowledge of ICT professions, and their reaction to sexist statements. To analyze more in depth, we provided the participants with two alternative forms of vocational counseling interventions designed to modify their ICT-related attitudes (information vs. robotics condition). Analyses of variance and multiple linear regressions were administered to the data. Results: The girls in this study were socialized more than one year after the boys in using computers. While the boys received their ICT training mostly through their fathers and peers, the girls frequently had to rely on their teachers for ICT instruction. The girls rate their ICT competence lower than the boys; nevertheless, both genders share a relatively high interest in ICT professions. What's more, the girls are less convinced that men have a natural talent for computer science. Openness toward taking up jobs in the ICT industry in the case of the boys is less determined by their self-rated computer competence and the perceived ICT talent assessment by their parents. In both intervention conditions, they eagerly received and processed the new information provided. The girls' interest in an ICT career largely depends on preconditions, namely on their self-rated ICT competence, on a long-standing enthusiasm for computers, and on what they perceive their parents think about their ICT talents. Unlike the more pragmatic approach of the boys, their self-doubts, especially among the academic high school girls brings about that they are still in danger to leave the field of information/computer science before having entered it. In general, the participants' responses point to a comprehensive misdirection of young women in German middle schools and academic high schools. Fortunately, this study provides a lot of evidence on how to fix this major mishap in the interest of both sexes.

SUBMITTER: Schorr A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504807 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Pipped at the Post: Knowledge Gaps and Expected Low Parental IT Competence Ratings Affect Young Women's Awakening Interest in Professional Careers in Information Science.

Schorr Angela A

Frontiers in psychology 20190501

Although many jobs in today's information science allow favorable work-life-schedules for women, they still hesitate to enter this territory. In a study based on individual interviews with <i>N</i> = 134 students aged 14-18 years, who visited the <i>Deutsches Museum</i> in Munich, Germany, we collected data on the students' socialization in information and communication technology (ICT), on their self-rated ICT competence, their working knowledge of ICT professions, and their reaction to sexist ...[more]

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Pipped at the Post: Knowledge Gaps and Expected Low Parental IT Competence Ratings Affect Young Women's Awakening Interest in Professional Careers in Information Science.

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