Women at STEM: Professional Strategies

Student: Nikolaeva Ekaterina

Educational Programme: Applied Methods of Social Analysis of Markets (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This paper examines the narrow issues related to gender segregation, as well as the formation of professional strategies and labor behavior in a specific group – women IT professionals in STEM. The author identifies professional strategies of women IT specialists, analyzes and systematizes the main problems of implementing professional strategies of women in the field of IT. Modern scientific approaches to the study of professional gender segregation and the peculiarities of its manifestation in Russia are systematized and justified. The main motives for women's choice of IT-specialty are revealed. The article considers the experience of training, barriers and difficulties that women face when learning a profession. Theoretical approaches to explaining the reasons for the existence of gender segregation in the field of work and in the field of STEM, in particular, are considered.

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