SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND GENDER: A TUTORIAL Software runs the world and should provide equal rights and opportunities to all genders. However, the gender gap exists in the software engineering workforce and many software products are still gender biased. This tutorial aims to present a set of scientific studies based on qualitative and quantitative research methods. This work contributes to raising awareness about gender gap prevalent in the software industry. The goal of this tutorial is to learn about software engineering and gender and to discuss the state of the art of gender issues in core topics of software engineering. The tutorial  ill provide participants with a clear definition and understanding of Software Engineering and gender and explain the origins and historical context that led to the emergence of this concept. The tutorial promotes inclusivity by illustrating how feminist principles can be applied in software engineering and showcases examples of inclusive software design and coding practices that align with Feminism concepts.    Program   |    Presentations   |  Videos

Program

14:30 - 14:40 WELCOME by
Prof. Dimitris Plexousakis, Director of Computer Science Institute
the FORTH’s Gender Equality&Anti-Discrimination Committee

14:40 - 16:30 KEYNOTE
“Software Engineering and Gender: A Tutorial”
Prof. Letizia Jaccheri, Department of Computer Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
supported by the ACM Distinguished Speaker Program

• Presentation session: introduction, key concepts (50 min)
• Break (10 min)
• Interactive session: state of the art of software engineering gender studies (40 min)
• Feedback and closing (10 min)

16:30 - 16:50 BREAK

16:50 - 17:45 ROUND TABLE: Gender Sensitive Research and Innovation @FORTH-ICS

• Identify Gender Bias in AI and Machine Learning (10 min)
  Dr. Panagiotis Papadakos (Post-Doctoral Scientist, PhD)
• Promoting inclusion, diversity and non-discrimination through educational software (10 min)
  Dr. Giorgos Giannakakis (Senior Technical Staff, PhD)
• Gender Dimensions in Generative AI for Image and Video Synthesis (10 min)
  Dr. Anastasios (Tassos) Roussos (Principal Researcher, PhD)
  Ms. Paraskevi Valergaki (Graduate Student MSc.)
• Equal Minds, Equal Code. FORTH-ICS steps to Inclusive Computer Science (10 min)
  Ms. Magdalini Chatzaki (Staff, MSc.)
• Questions, Discussion and closing (15 min)

The programm is available here in pdf format : GICS Workshop Programme.pdf

Presentations

Here is the list of the available presentations:

• "Software Engineering and gender a tutorial", Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegisn University of Science and Technology
• "equal minds, equal code", Magdalini Chatzaki, Dept. of Systems & Networks, FORTH-ICS 
• "Gender Bias in AI*", Panagiotis Papadakos, FORTH-ICS
• "Gender Dimensions in Generative AI for Image and Video Synthesis", Paraskevi (Vivi) Valergaki & Anastasios (Tassos) Roussos, FORTH-ICS