Gender issues in the career development of computer science staff

Women form a tiny minority of staff who lecture in Computer Science at universities in the UK. This gender imbalance reduces the scope for women to contribute to research and development and reinforces in students' minds the impression that computing is a male dominated profession. To encourage more women to consider a career in lecturing, research was undertaken on the factors that influenced the careers of a sample of female computer science lecturers. The paper presents the findings of the research and makes recommendations for improving the position of women lecturers.