Confronting the “Socialization” Barrier: Cross-Ethnic Differences in Undergraduate Women’s Preference for IT Education
Confronting the “Socialization” Barrier: Cross-Ethnic Differences in Undergraduate Women’s Preference for IT Education
This chapter analyzes the perceptions of male and female computer science/computer engineering (CS/CE) undergraduate students with regard to gender-related issues. The study is based on in-depth interviews with 150 male and female students belonging to five different ethnic/racial groups. Pierre Bourdieu's concept of “habitus” is used to explain how a set of experiences — in the school and through socialization at home or outside — constitute the “dispositions”of male and females students, which continually reproduce gendered and gendering differences, even though a majority of both male and female students feel that there is no gender difference.
Keywords: computer science, computer engineering, male students, female students, college students, gender difference, habitus, Pierre Bourdieu, socialization
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