Ethnic and Gender Computer Employment Status

Abstract

Job distributions and salary data m the relatively new field of computers were examined for men and women in three ethnic groups. Significant differences existed in the job levels and salaries among the six ethnic-gender groups. In general, women were over-employed in low-level jobs, whereas men were over-employed in high-level jobs; those patterns did not hold up for all of the ethnic-gender groups. It was noted that median salaries were significantly different among the six ethnic-gender groups. The research design involved (a) the "interaction" between gender and ethnicity, and (b) use of expected representation in the work force, and (c) median salaries as standards, as opposed to selection of a specific ethnic-gender group as the "norm." In future studies, those approaches are recommended because they illustrate actual discriminatory patterns that are masked by "main effect" gender or ethnicity studies. Keywords. gender, ethnicity, employment, computers, black, Hispanic, women.