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...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 10; pp. 5 - 6
Autor principal: Vardi, Moshe Y.
Formato: Editorial
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2015
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