Departmental differences can point the way to improving female retention in computer science

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 198-202

  Cohoon, J McGrath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Gender; Retention; Undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010298980     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/384266.299753     Document Type: Article

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