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Research in Progress: A Field Study of Career Anchors and Women in the IT Force
Abstract
The information age has created an increasing dependence on information technology (IT) as it becomes a primary component of the national and global economy. As a result, researching the composition and predicting the direction of the IT workforce has become an important matter for discussion. A major challenge currently facing IT management is the recruitment and retention of the necessary personnel needed to meet the current and future demands of the information age. At the same time, there is growing discourse that points to the importance of diversity in the global IT economy (e.g. Florida, 2005; Gravely, 2003; Trauth et al., 2006). Despite the shortage of IT professionals and the organizational and social benefits of diversity, women are largely under represented in the IT workforce.
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