Reducing implicit gender biases in software development: does intergroup contact theory work?

Published: Nov 7, 2020
Abstract
The software development profession suffers from severe gender biases, which could be explicit and implicit. However, SE literature has not systematically explored and evaluated the methods for reducing gender biases, especially for implicit gender biases. This paper reports on a field experiment to examine whether the intergroup contact theory could reduce implicit gender biases in software development. In the field experiment, 280...
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Reducing implicit gender biases in software development: does intergroup contact theory work?
Published Date
Nov 7, 2020
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