ICT Interventions for Girls: Factors Influencing ICT Career Intentions

Authors

  • Elena Gorbacheva University of Muenster
  • Annemieke Craig Deakin University
  • Jenine Beekhuyzen Deakin University
  • Jo Coldwell-Neilson Deakin University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v18i3.1103

Keywords:

Intervention, Girls and ICT, Gender diversity.

Abstract

Intervention programs aimed at promoting study and work opportunities in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) field to schoolgirls have been encouraged to combat a decline in the interest among girls to study ICT at school. The goal of our study is to investigate the influence of such interventions on schoolgirls’ intentions to choose a career in the ICT field by analysing comprehensive survey data (n = 3577), collected during four interventions in Australia, using the Partial Least Squares method. Our study is also aimed at identifying other factors influencing ICT career intentions. We found that the attitude towards interventions has an indirect influence on ICT career intentions by affecting interest in ICT. Our results also challenge several existing theoretical studies by showing that factors that had previously been suggested as influencers were found to have little or no impact in this study, these being same-sex education and computer usage.

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Published

2014-11-01

How to Cite

Gorbacheva, E., Craig, A., Beekhuyzen, J., & Coldwell-Neilson, J. (2014). ICT Interventions for Girls: Factors Influencing ICT Career Intentions. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v18i3.1103

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 3 (2014): Theme: ACIS 2013 selected papers

Section

Selected Papers from the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)

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