GIRE: Gender-Inclusive Requirements Engineering

Gender inclusion is fundamental to a prosperous society, but inequality and exclusion persist in various sectors of it. One them the ICT field, which still struggling represent diversity those it serves. The lack power imbalance software development affects produced systems, that, instead advancing gender inclusion, create new barriers achieving Although considered neutral, does not equally serve everyone who depends on it, favoring characteristics that are statistically more observed represented during development. As teams predominantly male, surprising existing systems favor men over other genders. technologies rapidly evolve revolutionize way we live, addressing this problem becomes urgent ensure these benefit everyone, regardless their gender. first step towards goal, performed systematic mapping study issues engineering whose results indicated impacts there limited approaches for Requirements Engineering. This served as foundation proposing conceptual model gender-inclusive requirements. Its main objective facilitate discussion analysis related concepts elicitation process include specification In paper, extend work by illustrating with an example, presenting using knowledge prototype tool implements discussing evaluation 31 participants model’s usefulness, difficulty understanding, strengths weaknesses, use recommendation, finally, its components. were positive both novices experts modeling useful, provided comprehensive feedback also suggestions improvement, most answered positively questions about whether they would recommend