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Am I good enough? Sources of IT self-efficacy as key impediments to narrowing the IT gender gap

In: Handbook of Gender and Technology

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  • K.D. Joshi

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This chapter critically examines the role of technical and nontechnical information technology (IT) self-efficacy in narrowing the IT gender gap. Traditional stereotypical perceptions regarding technical skills (as masculine skills) and non-technical skills (as feminine skills) are expected to differentially shape men’s and women’s self-efficacy. This chapter illustrates how the key sources of self-efficacy that are essential for building confidence are working against women. The contrarian view of IT self-efficacy presented in this chapter illustrates how the sources of IT self-efficacy contribute to the declining number of women in IT. This chapter concludes with the following call to action -if we want to reverse this trend, it is necessary to examine the role of those who are engaged in exclusion.

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  • K.D. Joshi, 2023. "Am I good enough? Sources of IT self-efficacy as key impediments to narrowing the IT gender gap," Chapters, in: Eileen M. Trauth & Jeria L. Quesenberry (ed.), Handbook of Gender and Technology, chapter 22, pages 398-414, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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