| Presentation | Research areas | Research projects | Publications | News | Team | Contacts | ||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Why are there so few women among the professionals of information and communication technology (ICT)? What are the barriers to women choosing and developing careers in ICT professions, and what changes are likely to improve their access and position in this labour market? This European project (Information Society Technologies, 5th Framework Programme) hinges on the development of an integrated approach to the different aspects of gender disparity in the ICT professions. It combines explanatory factors linked to education and training, with the conditions of work and employment, and with the technical and professional culture of ICT. Research teams in seven countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and United Kingdom) have carried out in-depth empirical studies. They suggest targeted recommendations for agents of change in this area. In memoriam: Laurence d'Ouville Laurence d'Ouville accidentally died in December 2006. She was the WWW-ICT project manager at ANACT (Lyon). Through two years of intensive collaboration, all the WWW-ICT partners appreciated her dynamism, her lucidity, her engagement for professional equality between women and men, and also her communicative enthousiasm and jovial character. Laurence is co-author of most WWW-ICT publications. Particularly she designed the awareness leaflets. We share the sorrow of her family and friends and we want to pay her a tribute through this web site. Downloadable documents: final products
Awareness leaflets (also web version in French) A series of three 6-pages leaflets ainming at presenting research conclusions and recommendations for three groups of "agents of change": enterprises and their business partners; institutions for education and vocational training; women's associations, trade unions and institutions for equal opportunities.
Conclusions and recommendations Conclusions are presented under four headings: education
and training; women's working conditions; labour market and labour
relations; women's trajectories. Recommendations start from the
question: what are the conditions that can make ICT professions
and careers more attractive for women? The document briefly describes
the steps leading from conclusions to recommendations. Then it presents,
in a synoptic view, the recommendations, the concerned agents of
change, and example of good practices supporting the relevance of
the recommendations. Recommendations are finally detailed according
to different European policy areas. Downloadable documents: scientific reports Inventory and analysis of good practices Final version: February 2004. This report summarises
and analyses the information gathered on good practices aimed at
improving women's place in ICT professions in Europe. After an introductory
comment on the definition criteria of "good" practices,
chapter I presents a structured overview of collected good practices,
highlighting their key formal characteristics and situating them
with regard to the variety of ICT professions. Chapter III draws
some avenues for development and evolution of these practices, stressing
the importance of driving forces and mobilising initiators. Chapter
IV develops methodological recommendations related to quality criteria
and evaluation process of good practices in this area. Chapter V
draws conclusions and recommendations, and summarises the key arguments
supporting the recommendations. Seven annexes present inventories
of selected good practices in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland,
Italy, France and the UK. Case studies of work organisation Final version: February 2004. The report presents the
analysis and synthesis of 14 sectoral overviews and 28 case studies
of enterprises in two sectors (computer services and e-publishing)
and seven countries. Chapters I and II are respectively devoted
to a comparative analysis of work and employment in the computer
services industry and the e-publishing industry, with an emphasis
on social aspects and gender issues. Chapter III describes the case
study analysis in computer services and chapter IV in e-publishing.
Chapter V highlights some national and contextual issues related
to women's work in these sectors across Europe. Chapter VI presents
conclusions under two main headings: labour markets; organisational
structures and practices. Professional trajectories and biographies First final version: January 2004. The report starts
presenting the conclusions from the biographical interviews, as
a 12-pages executive summary. The next chapter analyses more precisely
the key characteristics and varied profiles of women's biographies
in ICT. The third chapter draws eight clusters of career patterns
for women in ICT, based on a multi-criteria analysis of the coded
biographical sheets gathered by the seven research teams in their
country. The fourth chapter accounts for a more in-depth qualitative
analysis of life-story patterns. The fifth chapter comments specific
aspects of the male biographies and stresses the common and different
points as regards female biographies. Annex 1 contains the seven
synthesis reports on biographical interviews in each country. Annex
2 summarises the quantitative analysis of the coded biographical
sheets and explains the methodology of cluster analysis. Conceptual framework and state of the art (September 2002, updated April 2003, English, 156 pp.,
downloadable PDF file) Other downloadable articles or presentations 2004-2008 Patricia Vendramin Gérard Valenduc, Patricia Vendramin Gérard Valenduc Gérard Valenduc, Patricia Vendramin, Caroline Guffens Fondation Travail-Université (FTU)
National Agency for the Improvement of Working Conditions
(ANACT)
Vienna University of Technology (TUW), Institute
for Technology Assessment and Design Fondazione
Pietro Seveso Research and Consultancy in Work and Employment
University of Lisbon, Centre for Social Research and
Intervention (CIS)
Trinity College, Employment Research Centre (ERC)
|
||||||||||||||||||
| Presentation | Research areas | Research projects | Publications | News | Team | Contacts |
