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Research and theoretical papers
Published: 29-11-2019

Applying a Gender Lens to the Predictors of High-tech Career Intentions among Engineering Students in Bangladesh

Morgan State University
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Samina M. Saifuddin

Assistant Professor

Department of Business Administration

Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management

Carleton University
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Lorraine Dyke

Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President (Academic)&
Professor, Management and Strategy

Carleton University
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Maria Rasouli

Contract Instructor

Sprott School of Business&

Gender career engineering high-tech IT

Abstract

This paper explores the extent to which perceived job attributes, perceived male dominance in the high-tech sector, and perceptions of the media’s gendered representation of high-tech might influence students’ intentions to pursue a career in the high-tech sector. A survey was conducted with 209 female and 640 male engineering undergraduate students in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The results suggested that both female and male students were attracted to high-tech when they viewed it as a challenging career.& Gender role stereotypes also, however, influenced the career intentions of both women and men.& Although they are influenced by different types of gendered norms — women by attitudes toward the suitability of high-tech careers for women and men by male media images of high-tech — the gendering of high-tech work influenced both women and men. The results contradict previous findings that female students perceive high-tech work as boring, uncool, and nerdy but support previous findings on the negative effect of gender stereotyping on female students’ interest in pursuing a high-tech related career

How to Cite

Saifuddin, S. M., Dyke, L., & Rasouli, M. (2019). Applying a Gender Lens to the Predictors of High-tech Career Intentions among Engineering Students in Bangladesh. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 11(2), 258–285. Retrieved from https://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/569