GE@ICSE 2024

GE@ICSE: Fifth Workshop on Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering

The software engineering community is realizing that diversity plays a key role in the creation of a successful and competitive context for software development and research. Such diversity refers to the combination of many aspects such as gender, culture, religion, and geographical distribution. The purpose of this workshop, which is at its fifth edition, is to bring together software engineering researchers and external experts to discuss the interplay of software engineering with gender diversity and other diversity aspects. The overall goal of the workshop is to improve the state of gender equality and in general increase inclusion and diversity principles in the software engineering community.

Goals of the workshop

As anticipated goals and outcomes of the workshop, we plan to:

• Be able to obtain a deeper understanding of gender issues’ magnitude in software engineering, including the role of differences, as well as of difficulties and opportunities related to gender equality.
• Identify issues that need further empirical analysis and investigation.
• Increase the awareness of practitioners, researchers, and educators on the different degrees of the presence of women in %ICT software engineering as well as on the difficulties they face in taking leading positions.
• Focus on the identification of other issues related to diversity (e.g., religion, cultural traditions) that may have emerged in the community and that may call for attention.
• Build a community of people interested in the subject and willing to identify problems, define, and, possibly, actuate long-term solutions.
• Define a research roadmap of open issues to point out to other researchers which research needs exist.

Join us

• Choose one of the ways of contributing described in our Call for Papers, or
• join us as a regular participant on our workshop day, April 20, 2024.

Call for Papers

GE@ICSE: Fifth Workshop on Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering invites students, academics, industry professionals, and other leaders and experts in software engineering to submit papers, collaborate, and attend this workshop to discuss the interplay of software engineering with gender diversity and other diversity aspects. The overall goal of the workshop is to improve the state of gender equality and in general increase inclusion and diversity principles in the software engineering community.

Topics

We invite contributions and perspectives on the following topics and beyond:

• Summaries, challenges, and studies regarding the role of different genders in software engineering education and research.
• Studies concerning the role of different genders in the software engineering industry.
• Other diversity aspects include religion, disability, and social and cultural differences.
• Specific experiences that can be generalized and shared with the public.
• Also, submissions from other scientific areas with contents that are transferable to software engineering are welcome.

All contributions will undergo a peer-review process carried out by the program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM/IEEE workshop proceedings. The official publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM and IEEE Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2024.

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: 7th December 2023
• Paper acceptance notification: 11th January 2024
• Camera-ready papers: 25th January 2024
• Workshop date: 20th April 2024

Submission categories

We invite submissions for GE@ICSE 2024 in the following categories:

• Full paper (up to 8 pages): full contribution connected to workshop topics.
• Short paper (up to 4 pages): initial contribution or position statement.
• Poster (up to 2 pages): poster abstract describing the intended poster.

Formatting

All submissions must conform to the ICSE 2024 formatting and submission instructions available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}), together with \acmConference[ICSE 2024]{46th International Conference on Software Engineering}{April 2024}{Lisbon, Portugal} to identify the conference.

Submission link

The papers need to be submitted through the EasyChair workshop submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geicse2024