A study of barriers to women in undergraduate computer science

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

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 82-86

  Scragg, Greg ^a   Smith, Jesse ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 2642574913     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/274790.273167     Document Type: Article

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