What Can Be Done about Gender Diversity in Computing? A Lot!
The article focuses on the challenges of gender diversity in computing and in U.S. computer science education. Topics discussed include the high percentage of male computer programmers in U.S. technology companies, a study finding that fewer than 15 percent of Computer Science college majors were wo...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 10; pp. 5 - 6 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Oct2015
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the challenges of gender diversity in computing and in U.S. computer science education. Topics discussed include the high percentage of male computer programmers in U.S. technology companies, a study finding that fewer than 15 percent of Computer Science college majors were women, and efforts by Carnegie Mellon University and Harvey Mudd College to increase gender diversity. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, from October 14-16, 2015, in Houston, Texas, is also mentioned. |
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