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Gender and Professional Practices in Software Engineering

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Engineering Professionalism

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In this chapter, I investigate how software engineers account for their professional practice in three different sites and cultural contexts, Norway, Malaysia, and California, and what role gender play in their accounts. I am exploring how they describe their work tasks, practices, skills, motivations and experiences, and where and how gender surfaces or become relevant in these accounts.

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    Vivian Anette Lagesen

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Lagesen, V.A. (2016). Gender and Professional Practices in Software Engineering. In: Jørgensen, U., Brodersen, S. (eds) Engineering Professionalism. Professional Practice and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-752-8_12

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