Assisting women in career change towards software engineering:
experience from Czechitas NGO

D 2019

Assisting women in career change towards software engineering: experience from Czechitas NGO

BÜHNOVÁ, Barbora, Lucie JURYSTOVÁ and Dita PŘIKRYLOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Assisting women in career change towards software engineering: experience from Czechitas NGO

Authors

BÜHNOVÁ, Barbora (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Lucie JURYSTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic) and Dita PŘIKRYLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

New York, NY, USA, Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture - Volume 2, p. 88-93, 6 pp. 2019

Publisher

ACM

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/19:00116878

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

ISBN

978-1-4503-7142-1

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3344948.3344967

UT WoS

000717010900019

Keywords in English

Software engineering; education; career change; women

Abstract

V originále

Technological growth affects the way we live, communicate, and work. Over the coming decades, up to 60% of existing jobs might be lost to automation. This creates pressure on the job market, demanding more tech professionals, while creating job insecurity for positions that might be automated. Although tech and computing is an appealing career choice with high salary, job security, working flexibility, space for creativity and career growth, vast majority of women are dropping their interest in tech during adolescence, with very limited recovery in later years, when preventable reasons are stopping them from reconsidering their decision and joining tech. In this paper, we share our experience with a project assisting women in their 20s and 30s in changing career towards tech. The project has been implemented within our education non-profit organization, called Czechitas, which is recognized as the leading platform for addressing gender diversity in tech and software engineering in the Czech Republic.

Citovat

BÜHNOVÁ, Barbora, Lucie JURYSTOVÁ and Dita PŘIKRYLOVÁ. Assisting women in career change towards software engineering: experience from Czechitas NGO. Online. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture - Volume 2. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019, p. 88-93. ISBN 978-1-4503-7142-1. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3344948.3344967.

@inproceedings{1690556,
   author = {Bühnová, Barbora and Jurystová, Lucie and Přikrylová, Dita},
   address = {New York, NY, USA},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture - Volume 2},
   doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3344948.3344967},
   keywords = {Software engineering; education; career change; women},
   howpublished = {elektronická verze "online"},
   language = {eng},
   location = {New York, NY, USA},
   isbn = {978-1-4503-7142-1},
   pages = {88-93},
   publisher = {ACM},
   title = {Assisting women in career change towards software engineering: experience from Czechitas NGO},
   url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3344948.3344967},
   year = {2019}
}

TY  - JOUR
ID  - 1690556
AU  - Bühnová, Barbora - Jurystová, Lucie - Přikrylová, Dita
PY  - 2019
TI  - Assisting women in career change towards software engineering: experience from Czechitas NGO
PB  - ACM
CY  - New York, NY, USA
SN  - 9781450371421
KW  - Software engineering
KW  - education
KW  - career change
KW  - women
UR  - https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3344948.3344967
N2  - Technological growth affects the way we live, communicate, and work. Over the coming decades, up to 60% of existing jobs might be lost to automation. This creates pressure on the job market, demanding more tech professionals, while creating job insecurity for positions that might be automated. Although tech and computing is an appealing career choice with high salary, job security, working flexibility, space for creativity and career growth, vast majority of women are dropping their interest in tech during adolescence, with very limited recovery in later years, when preventable reasons are stopping them from reconsidering their decision and joining tech. In this paper, we share our experience with a project assisting women in their 20s and 30s in changing career towards tech. The project has been implemented within our education non-profit organization, called Czechitas, which is recognized as the leading platform for addressing gender diversity in tech and software engineering in the Czech Republic.
ER  -

BÜHNOVÁ, Barbora, Lucie JURYSTOVÁ and Dita PŘIKRYLOVÁ. Assisting women in career change towards software engineering: experience from Czechitas NGO. Online. In \textit{Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture - Volume 2}. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019, p.~88-93. ISBN~978-1-4503-7142-1. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3344948.3344967.

Detailed Information on Publication Record