Gender Differences in the Information Systems Managerial Ranks: An Assessment of Potential Discriminatory Practices.

Author List: Truman, Gregory E.; Baroudi, Jack J.;

MIS Quarterly, 1994, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 129-142.

This paper examines the extent to which gender discrimination is a force affecting the senior managerial ranks of the information systems (IS) occupation. While the employment trends of women in the IS occupation is encouraging, data are presented that suggest that IS may not be immune to the problems of gender discrimination. Analyzing data gathered by the Society for Information Management (SIM), a problem suggestive of discriminatory practices was found. Women receive lower salaries than men even when job level, age, education, and work experience are controlled.

Keywords: gender discrimination; IS management; personnel management

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#218	0.216	role roles gender differences women significant play age men plays sample differ played vary understand critical greater implications relatively offered
#150	0.173	issues management systems information key managers executives senior corporate important importance survey critical corporations multinational managing interviews study results concerns
#195	0.118	pricing services levels level on-demand different demand capacity discrimination mechanism schemes conditions traffic paper resource expected based constraints solution latency
#243	0.106	states united employment compensation labor workers paper work extent findings increasing implications concerns relationship managerial wage options offer salary entry
#231	0.088	information management data processing systems corporate article communications organization control distributed department capacity departments major user hardware cost applications expansion
#298	0.074	job employees satisfaction work role turnover employee organizations organizational information ambiguity characteristics personnel stress professionals conflict organization intention variables systems