How We Lost the Women in Computing.

The article discusses factors creating gender disparity through the underrepresentation of women in computing. Topics include a memo written by engineer James Damore of the search engine firm Google Inc., the historical role of women in computing and code breaking, and problems harming the recruitme...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 5; pp. 9 - 10
Autor principal:	Vardi, Moshe Y.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery May2018
Materias:	Women in computer science Sex discrimination in employment Women computer programmers Google Inc. Damore, James Employee recruitment
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Sumario:	The article discusses factors creating gender disparity through the underrepresentation of women in computing. Topics include a memo written by engineer James Damore of the search engine firm Google Inc., the historical role of women in computing and code breaking, and problems harming the recruitment of women by Silicon Valley, California technology firms.