The trouble with ‘women in computing’: a critical examination of the deployment of research on the gender gap in computer science.
The pessimistic scenario for ‘women in information communications technology’ and for ‘women in technology’ generally is even more paradoxical and insidious with respect to ‘women in computing’. Studies within this field not only report insignificant improvement in the proportion of women in Western...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. 666 - 681 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2016
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