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SUMMARY:&quot\;Womenomics&quot\; and Gender-Inclusive Software: What the S
 oftware Industry Needs to Know  - Margaret Burnett\, Oregon State Universi
 ty
DTSTART:20160902T100000Z
DTEND:20160902T110000Z
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CONTACT:44515
DESCRIPTION:Gender inclusiveness in software companies is receiving a lot 
 of attention these days\, but it overlooks a potentially critical factor: 
 software itself. Research into how individual differences cluster by gende
 r shows that males and females often work differently with software for pr
 oblem-solving (e.g.\, tools for programming\, debugging\, spreadsheet mode
 ling\, end-user programming\, game-based learning\, visualizing informatio
 n\, etc.). In this talk\, I'll present the first real-world investigation 
 of software practitioners' ability to identify gender-inclusiveness issues
  in software they create/maintain\, using a method we call GenderMag. At t
 he core of the method are 5 facets of gender differences drawn from a larg
 e body of foundational work on gender differences from computer science\, 
 psychology\, education\, communications\, and women's studies. Results fro
 m the field study were that software practitioners identified a surprising
 ly high number of gender-inclusiveness issues in their own software. We pr
 esent these results and more\, along with tales from the trenches on what 
 it’s like to use GenderMag\, where the pitfalls lie\, and all the things
  we are still in the process of learning about it. 
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 21 Station Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB1 2FB
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