What is it about?
The potential human capital crisis in the Information Technology (IT) industry could be mitigated by focusing on hiring and retaining currently underrepresented women. This study examines the effectiveness of gender equality policies in increasing women’s representation in management and professional roles in IT organizations.
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Why is it important?
Instead of examining the net effects of each gender equality policy, we use complexity theory, signaling theory, and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to elucidate how the configurations of five gender equality policies send simultaneous signals to enhance the representation of women.
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An integrated approach to gender equality is needed because a single policy alone does not determine women’s representation. Due to complex interactions, multiple policy configurations can achieve strong female representation across various hierarchical levels. The structures of configurations for strong representation and not-strong representation differ, suggesting that the underlying causality of women's representation in IT is asymmetric.
Ms Ranjita Islam
Queensland University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Enhancing women's representation in information technology through gender equality policies: A qualitative comparative analysis, European Management Journal, March 2025, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2025.03.003.
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