Caring about connections: Gender and computing

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 13-20

  Margolis, Jane ^a   Fisher, Allan ^b   Miller, Faye ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE CULTURE; COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0033358002     PISSN: 02780097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/44.808844     Document Type: Article

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