Gender Diversity and Community Smells: Insights From the Trenches

Given growing attention to gender diversity in software development teams, we asked practitioners if it was a useful tool to mitigate undesirable communication patterns. While many participants didn't consider gender diversity useful in this context, those who did were motivated by their own pr...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 10 - 16
Main Authors Catolino, Gemma, Palomba, Fabio, Tamburri, Damian A., Serebrenik, Alexander, Ferrucci, Filomena
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.01.2020
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Community Smell
Gender
Gender Diversity
Gender issues
Programmers
Software development
Software development management
Survey
Teams
Workplace diversity
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Summary:Given growing attention to gender diversity in software development teams, we asked practitioners if it was a useful tool to mitigate undesirable communication patterns. While many participants didn't consider gender diversity useful in this context, those who did were motivated by their own professional experience.
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2019.2944594