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Exploring women’s motivations to study computer science

机译：探索女性学习计算机科学的动机

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This paper presents a study exploring women's decisions, influencers and early experiences of computing to better understand how women's motivations and prior experience affect their decision to study computer science (CS). The emergence of a gender balance target and government imperatives for Scottish university courses has challenged computer science as a discipline across the 14 universities in which computing is currently taught. The funding body target is that there should be a more equal gender balance, with no course having fewer than 25% of one gender, leading to a proliferation of gender action plans across the university sector. Of course the phenomenon of under-representation extends across developed countries in the west, albeit with a small number of high profile resource-intensive interventions making headway. At present the percentage of women studying computing in the UK is 17%. The lack of female applicants to courses suggests that subject decisions have been made through previous experiences prior to selecting a course and university. Surveying current computer science students (n=185) we explored women's and men's reasons for studying computer science, their influencers and their early experiences of computing. The aim of the study was to examine the motivations and influences that led them to a positive choice of computer science in order to find evidence on which to build a gender action plan. We found that women were introduced to computing at different stages (including home, early schooling and secondary schooling), whereas men were more likely to have been introduced to computers at home. Women also cited slightly more varying reasons for selecting CS, while men were more likely to select it based on personal interest. Both men and women were influenced by friends and family. However, men were slightly more likely than women to make the decision to study computing by themselves, not citing any other influence. The paper reviews the literature on women studying CS and describes the study and findings. It is hoped that this initial work can help universities better understand the nature of the challenge and target resources in the right places to encourage more women to study CS.
机译：本文提出了一项研究，探讨了女性的决策，影响者和早期的计算经验，以更好地了解女性的动机和先前的经验如何影响其学习计算机科学（CS）的决策。性别平衡目标的出现和苏格兰大学课程的政府要求，已经挑战了计算机科学作为一门目前正在教授计算机的14所大学中的一门学科。筹资机构的目标是要实现更平等的性别平衡，任何课程的性别比例均不得低于25％，从而导致整个大学部门的性别行动计划泛滥。当然，代表性不足的现象遍及西方发达国家，尽管少数高调的资源密集型干预措施取得了进展。目前，在英国学习计算机的女性比例为17％。缺少女性申请者的课程表明，在选择课程和大学之前，已经根据以往的经验做出了科目决定。通过对当前计算机科学专业的学生（n = 185）进行调查，我们探讨了男女学习计算机科学的原因，他们的影响者以及他们早期的计算经验。这项研究的目的是研究促使他们积极选择计算机科学的动机和影响，以便找到制定性别行动计划的依据。我们发现，女性在不同的阶段（包括家庭，早期教育和中学阶段）被引入计算机领域，而男性则更有可能在家中被引入计算机领域。女性还列举了选择CS的理由稍有不同，而男性则更有可能根据个人兴趣选择CS。男女都受到朋友和家人的影响。但是，男人比女人更有可能自己决定自己学习计算机，而没有引用任何其他影响。本文回顾了有关女性学习CS的文献，并描述了这项研究和发现。希望这项初步工作可以帮助大学更好地理解挑战的性质，并在合适的地方投放资源，以鼓励更多的女性学习CS。

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