Title:	INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY OF WOMEN IN ICT CAREERS
Author(s):	Núria Vergés Bosch , Ana María González Ramos , Rachel Palmen
ISBN:	978-972-8924-82-9
Editors:	Gunilla Bradley and Piet Kommers
Year:	2009
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Mobility, Gender, ICT, Highly Skilled Human Resources
Type:	Reflection Paper
First Page:	237
Last Page:	241
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	In recent decades, the movement of people is greater given the intensification of economic activities and the improvement of ICT. The mobility of scientists plays a double role in strengthening professional careers and improving R&D and innovation systems. In the ICT sector, labour supply in skilled jobs is much wider, and although women are much less represented than men, they may adopt different mobility behaviours in comparison to women in other areas of knowledge. In this article, therefore, we ask whether there are gender differences in ICT career mobility and what could help to explain them. In this short paper we aim to briefly introduce the issue of women’s international mobility and present some of the findings of our work in progress about flows of human resources in Science and Technology in relation to gender and Spain. The transformation of traditional gender roles in the developed world and the modernisation process in developing countries has enabled women to adopt a more active role in the process of mobilisation. In Spain, however, deep gender differences are still present. Women still represent a minority in ICT areas of knowledge; therefore they are still underrepresented as mobility grant beneficiaries in these areas. However, the scarcity of women in the ICT area is accompanied by a higher success rate in mobility grants among women than their male counterparts in the same area. According to the literature and our findings, we can conclude that gender is an influential factor of mobility in ICT careers.
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