Women Security Experts Are Not The Enemy: A Qualitative Study on Gender-Related Communication Challenges

要旨

Effective communication is crucial for meeting security needs, yet gender-related communication challenges faced by women security experts within software development remain underexplored. In an interview study with 25 women security experts, we investigated gender-related communication challenges hindering the adoption of security requirements, and strategies to overcome these. Key challenges included the undervaluation of women’s security expertise, communication barriers, resistance to women’s security-related suggestions, and instances of hostility. Communication challenges with stakeholders who were men disrupted team collaboration, resulting in delays, weakened security measures, and increased organizational risk. Consequently, women security experts often had to adopt strategies, such as leveraging allied men and overpreparing, to assert their security competence. We further offer insights into women’s participation in security studies. Based on our findings, we provide recommendations on how to address gender-related challenges.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Asli Yardim
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Stefan Albert. Horstmann
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Raphael Serafini
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Joshua Gabriel. Speckels
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Alena Naiakshina
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713943

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713943

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Communication and Social Interaction

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