一句话：通过14位资深女性开发者的访谈，揭示其应对年龄与性别歧视的生存策略与经验。
年龄歧视与性别歧视的交织，可能使边缘化性别的资深软件开发者（主要是女性）面临不友好的职业环境。本文通过14次访谈考察这些开发者的经历，并识别其留在该领域所采用的策略。作者编码得到283个编码，归纳为策略、经历与感知三类。研究发现了一些此前未见的策略，如“刻意不让自己显得更年轻”；在某些公司，年长女性开发者被视为具有独特价值，支持了多样性收益。作者据此建议组织重视资深女性开发者的价值，例如借助其生活经验理解相似客户群体。尽管这些策略多是对系统性问题的回应，短期内描述它们仍对开发者有益。
The intersection of ageism and sexism can create a hostile environment for veteran software developers belonging to marginalized genders. In this study, we conducted 14 interviews to examine the experiences of people at this intersection, primar-ily women, in order to discover the strategies they employed in order to successfully remain in the field. We identified 283 codes, which fell into three main categories: Strategies, Experiences, and Perception. Several strategies we identified, such as (Deliberately) Not Trying to Look Younger, were not previously described in the software engineering literature. We found that, in some compa-nies, older women developers are recognized as having particular value, further strengthening the known benefits of diversity in the workforce. Based on the experiences and strategies, we suggest organizations employing software developers to consider the benefits of hiring veteran women software developers. For example, companies can draw upon the life experiences of older women developers in order to better understand the needs of customers from a similar demographic. While we recognize that many of the strategies employed by our study participants are a response to systemic issues, we still consider that, in the short-term, there is benefit in describing these strategies for developers who are experiencing such issues today.
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@inproceedings{abs-2302-03723,
title = {“STILL AROUND”: Experiences and Survival Strategies of Veteran Women Software Developers},
author = {Sterre Van Breukelen and Ann Barcomb and Sebastian Baltes and Alexander Serebrenik},
booktitle = {ICSE},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1109/icse48619.2023.00103}
}