GE@ICSE2018: Gender Equality in Software Engineering |
Website | https://sites.google.com/view/ge-icse2018/home |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geicse2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 5, 2018 |
Submission deadline | February 5, 2018 |
ICT is pervasively influencing all human activities. In this context, more and more people of any age, gender and culture is exposed to such technologies and has to acquire some ability and skill in this context.
For reasons that are still being studied, the engagement of genders with ICT is not uniform. This gap is occurring at all levels and it is evident, for instance, in the small percentage of women covering top positions in professional and academic activities in the field.
At the same time, the community is realising that diversity, when it does not assume the negative aspects of discrimination, plays a key role to a successful and competitive context for software development and research. Such diversity is not only related to gender aspects but refers also to the combination of culture, religion and geographical distribution.
In this context, the purpose of this workshop, which will be held as part of ICSE 2018, is to discuss about the role, difficulties and opportunities concerning people of different gender in the field of software engineering, in research, education and industry.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must have a maximum length of 4 pages and must follow the ACM SIGS proceedings format (please see https://www.icse2018.org/track/icse-2018-Double-blind-review#Formatting).
Papers should be submitted through the workshop submission system at EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geicse2018
List of Topics
Students, industry professionals, academics, and other leaders in software engineering are invited to submit position papers, collaborate and attend this workshop with the objective of assessing the current gender situation in various contexts and geographic areas, also in combination with any discriminatory factor, and of identifying and discussing possible difficulties and corresponding solutions.
Given the goals of the workshop, we are not interested in specific technical submissions, but we are looking for 4 pages position papers including (but not limited to):
- Summaries, challenges, and studies regarding the role of different genders in software engineering education and research.
- Studies concerning the role of different genders in software engineering industry.
- Specific experiences that can be generalized and shared with the public.
Also submissions from other scientific areas with contents that are transferable to software engineering are welcome.
Committees
Program Committee
- Alberto Avritzer, Performance Engineering Consultant, USA
- Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Antonella Ferrecchia, Insight-Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Jane Hillston, The University of Edinburgh, UK
- Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Rick Kazman, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, and University of Hawaii, USA
- Tiziana Margaria, Lero, Ireland
- Marija Mikic, Google, USA
- Gail Murphy, The University of British Columbia, Canada
- Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open University, UK & Lero, Ireland
- Flavio Oquendo, IRISA (UMR CNRS) & Univ. Bretagne-Sud (UBS), France
- Jennifer Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Rafael Prikladnicki, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Patrizia Scandurra, DIIMM - University of Bergamo, Italy
- David Shepherd, ABB, Inc, USA
- Sebastian Uchitel, University of Buenos Aires - Argentinia and Imperial College London, UK
- Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Organizing committee
- Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Invited Speakers
- Gabriele Abermann: Why Diversity Matters
- Reyyan Ayfer: Gender Gap: Whose Problem?
- Anna Nilsson-Ehle: We know what we need - time for action!
- Philip B. Stark: Separating Signal from Noise: Measuring Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Publication
All contributions will undergo a peer-review process carried out by the program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM workshop proceedings.
Venue
Satellite event of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 27 - 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Contact
Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sponsors
The workshop is sponsored by Chalmers University of Technology.