Can Compute, Won't Compute: Women's Participation in the Culture of Computing.

Wilson, Fiona

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ERIC Number: EJ672515

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Can Compute, Won't Compute: Women's Participation in the Culture of Computing.

Wilson, Fiona

New Technology, Work and Employment, v18 n2 p127-42 Jul 2003

Surveys of 130 psychology students and 52 computer science students (20 of the latter were interviewed) indicated that more males read computer magazines and were confident in computer use. Many did not perceive an equity problem. Men seemed to feel the equity situation is improving. Some felt that women do not enjoy computing as much as men and that explains their low enrollment in computer science. (Contains 98 references.) (SK)

Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Science Education, Females, Majors (Students), Organizational Culture, Participation, Psychology, Sex Fairness, Student Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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