@inproceedings{823a4d2f46aa46fba3309cb715ad650f,
title = "'A Guiding Light in a Virtual Haven': A Preliminary Analysis of Conversations around Navigating and Repairing Self-worth in an Online Professional Community for Women",
abstract = "The establishment of one's professional identity can be essential to one's sense of worth. For women, such challenges can be further magnified owing to the need to perform traditional roles along with sustaining a professional career. Through an analysis of a random sample of 10 discussion threads (80 conversation traces) from a subreddit called r/careerwomen, we explore the needs that draw women to use such forums and the ways in which such forums help develop endurance. Our preliminary analysis provides 2 main themes towards understanding how multiple socio-cultural pressures create tensions in defining one's sense of worth. In contrast, 5 other themes provide insights into strategies to redefine norms of worth. Building on these themes, we propose the analytical frame of morale repair, which aims to discuss how such socio-technical interventions can be designed and structured to further address the struggles for women in establishing a sense of worth.",
keywords = "Cultural norms, Gendered Identity, Reddit, Self-worth, Thematic content analysis",
author = "Subhasree Sengupta and Bryan Semaan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 ACM.; 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2021 ; Conference date: 23-10-2021 Through 27-10-2021",
year = "2021",
month = oct,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1145/3462204.3481737",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "158--162",
booktitle = "CSCW 2021 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2021 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
}