Hurdles in the pipeline: Girls and technology careers

Frontiers

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 99-109

  Kekelis, Linda S ^a   Ancheta, Rebecca Wepsic ^a   Heber, Etta ^a  

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EID: 21144454944     PISSN: 01609009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/fro.2005.0013     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Ferris State University Career Institute for Education and Workforce Development, Decisions without Direction: Career Guidance and Decision-Making Among American Youth, 2002, http://www.ferris.edu/careerinstitute/report.pdf.
2. National Science Foundation, Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2002 (Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, 2003), NSF 03-312.
3. AAUW Educational Foundation Commission on Technology, Gender, and Teacher Education, Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New ComputerAge (Washington, DC: AAUW Educational Foundation, 2000), http://www.aauw.org/member_center/ publications/TechSavvy/TechSavvy.pdf.
4. Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002);
5. Suzanne Silverman and Alice Pritchard, Building Their Future: Girls in Technology Education in Connecticut (Hartford, CT: Vocational Equity Research, Training, and Evaluation Center, 1993).
6. In addition to its programs for girls, Techbridge also offers training and resources for teachers and parents. At monthly meetings and summer workshops, teachers learn new curricula to more effectively engage girls in technology, to network with colleagues, and to gather resources for their classrooms. Parents receive resources and information on how to support their daughters' interest in technology. Major funding for Techbridge has been provided by the National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation. For more information about Techbridge, see Chabot Space and Science Center, "Techbridge: Encouraging Girls in Technology," http://www.chabotspace.org/visit/ programs/techbridge.asp.
7. Research from the Techbridge program for students who are blind and visually impaired is currently underway.
8. The girls attended schools where 41 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and 19 percent are limited-English proficient.
9. Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990).
10. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Barbara Schneider, Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work (New York: Basic Books, 2000).
11. Clifford Adelman, Women and Men of the Engineering Path: A Model for Analyses of Undergraduate Careers (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, National Institute for Science and Education, 1998).
12. National Science Board, Science and Engineering Indicators-2000 (Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, 2000), NSB-00-1.