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Information and Communication Behaviour of Women Space Technologists
Author(s) -
Sridhar M. S.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
randd management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.253
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1467-9310
pISSN - 0033-6807
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9310.1987.tb00064.x
Subject(s) - documentation , space (punctuation) , information transmission , population , psychology , information handling , information source (mathematics) , medical education , sociology , medicine , demography , computer science , computer network , statistics , mathematics , programming language , operating system , database
The author has carried out a survey to inquire into the information and communication behaviour of men and women space technologists in India. Members of a population of about 800, of whom about 70 were women, were questioned about their information seeking and transmission activities. The survey showed that on almost all aspects, including time spent on collecting information, number of contacts outside the organization, consultations with library staff, dependence on informal sources of information and so on, there were not significant differences between the sexes. The only important differences were that women used formal sources such as library documentation and consulted internal sources of information more than did men, and were much less likely to be gatekeepers. But women space technologists appeared to have low information potential in the sociometric analysis of informal contacts of the respondents as they were less likely to be chosen for discussion, advice and information by respondents than were men space technologists.