Challenges and opportunities for women in the fintech industry: a global perspective
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https://doi.org/10.52152/3173Keywords:
Fintech; Global; semi-structured; FemaleAbstract
This paper analyzes the social problems and professional situations that female science and technology practitioners should face, respectively, and analyzes the social support rate and professional situation of female practitioners through the semi-structural method. Specific conclusions are as follows: (1) through the network questionnaire for the "Chinese women" career-family " dilemma survey for the professional mother group, the questionnaire includes basic information, work development, work arrangement, birth policy, household distribution, value identity, content, at the same time through semi-structured interview with several working mothers and enterprises and institutions, head of depth communication, and combined with social observation, understand the women's life situation and the dilemma. (2) in the background of gender structure inequality in the technology industry, the "Women ln Tech female technology practitioners collection" group as a description of a supportive community and the online social support shows the group response to female technology practitioners' gender anxiety, and the reconstruction of gender discourse and gender consciousness. (3)Research found that in the background of the relatively different gender ratio of men and women in the current science and technology workplace, the traditional gender construction is constantly replicated through the workplace culture and has a particular impact on women in the division of labor, promotion, salary increase, and other aspects.
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