Women in computing: Historical roles, the perpetual glass ceiling, and current opportunities

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 36-42

  Goyal, Amita ^a,b,c,d  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c EDSIG's Worldwide Conf Conf S ^*

^d Intl Assoc Math Comp Modeling

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENGINEERS; HISTORY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTING INDUSTRY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0030243590     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.511942     Document Type: Article

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