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Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal
Published in: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 4/2020

01-08-2020

Women in the IT Sector: Queen Bee and Gender Judo Strategies

Authors: Valérie Harvey, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

Published in: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal | Issue 4/2020

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Abstract

Women in IT are a minority and the situation is not improving. Data from Statistics Canada from 1991 to 2011 show the engineering sectors do not count very many women. Thus, it is observed that while Canada has policies on gender equity and women should be considered as having the right to work in any sector, the reality is quite different, as is indicated in Statistics Canada data. We observe a low presence of women in the IT sector, a well-paid sector that should be of interest, and women continue to be employed in traditionally female, often low-paid, occupations. We thus wanted to understand how women in IT deal with their minority status in this sector. What are the main obstacles minority women in the IT sector face in their day-to-day lives? How do they deal with these? Do they use ‘queen bee’ responses to be promoted? What is it in the IT sector that motivates their work? These are all questions that have interested us and the results help us to better understand the causes of women’s low representation in the IT sector. Our research is based on a qualitative approach, with interviews of women in the IT sector in Québec (Canada).
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Metadata
Title
Women in the IT Sector: Queen Bee and Gender Judo Strategies
Authors
Valérie Harvey
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Publication date
01-08-2020
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal / Issue 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0892-7545
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3378
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10672-020-09353-z