Women engagement in ICT professions in Tanzania: exploring challenges and opportunities

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dc.contributor.authorMuro, Christina
dc.contributor.authorGabriel, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-12T13:47:32Z
dc.date.available2023-10-12T13:47:32Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionAbstract. Full text article available at https://tinyurl.com/2s3fkkzyen_US
dc.description.abstractWhile the government of Tanzania tries to increase number of women representation in all sectors, there are still fewer women in ICT sector. ICT has a great potential in reduce gender gap as it overcome geographical barrier and provide information and knowledge with easy and low access cost. Scholars from different countries have conducted research on the reasons of lesser number of women in ICT profession; however there are insufficient studies in Tanzania which systematically show the reasons of why women are underrepresented in various arenas of ICT professions. Therefore this study aims at identifying barriers that hinder women to engage in ICT professions in Tanzania and thereby exploring opportunities that could be adopted to overcome gender inequality in ICT professions. The study employed literature review and survey methods to achieve the objectives. Through Literature review and survey this paper has found that lack of awareness on the importance of ICT (76.2%) and lack of moral and financial support (65.6%) were the most dominant factors hindering women to pursue ICT professions. Additionally it was also found that having good background on science subject (86.4%), being confidence and focused on a certain career path (84.2%), and encouragements from role models (72.9%) were the most important factors which would provide women with opportunities to engage in ICT professions. We concluded that there is a need of formulating polices in higher institutions which are gender sensitive in order to engage women in ICT related professions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMuro, C., & Gabriel, M. (2016). Women engagement in ICT professions in Tanzania: exploring challenges and opportunities. Int. J. Comput. Inf. Technol, 5(5), 443-447.en_US
dc.identifier.otherURL: https://tinyurl.com/2s3fkkzy
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/4181
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSerials Publicationsen_US
dc.subjectICTen_US
dc.subjectWomen and ICTen_US
dc.subjectICT professionsen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.subjectInformation technologyen_US
dc.subjectInformation and communication technologyen_US
dc.titleWomen engagement in ICT professions in Tanzania: exploring challenges and opportunitiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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