Women in computer science: No shortage here!

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 111-114

  Othman, Mazliza ^a   Latih, Rodziah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

CAREER OBJECTIVES; CAREER PLANNING; GENDER BIAS; QUESTIONNAIRE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 33745189357     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1118178.1118185     Document Type: Review

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