Being or becoming? and its influence on motivation for mentoring (in

Being or becoming? and its influence on motivation for mentoring (in CS?) Kirsti E. Berntsen Ass. Prof. Dept. Informatics and e-Learning

The evidence shows - CS worse off than STEM Singling out - medicine, nano & IX are ‘hot’ Structures Self image ? Common opinion 2

Some issues Traditions of authorship in scientific publications – Sociology – ranked authorship gender indifferent recognition – E.g. economics - alfabetical order male recognition (Sarsons 2015, unpublished Harvard) Gender based strategies single out To counter balance - we need common stories on why to do . What are my capabilities? qualitative feedback on work, assignments, i.e. – more than grades A-F 3

Strategies - we need: - both collective and individual approaches - shared common opinions that support becoming and being Being a competent professional – requires membership in Communities of Practice (COP, Wenger 1998) Becoming, and staying, part of: a COP is made through a “mutual engagement” in “shared stories” – “making a joint enterprise that is continually renegotiated by (all) the members”. Good examples: – Little Doormaid (Jaccheri 2016) – Making the diverse history of computing and gender common knowledge (Misa 2010) 4

Alan Turing, Joan Clarke, Hugh Alexander, . Cracked the Enigma Code Machine, 2.World War Picture from the movie The Imitation Game (2014) Ada Byron Lovelace (1815-1852): invented the algorithm, for the first computer – Charles Babbage’s Analytical Machine