Information technology education and employment for women in Kenya

SIGMIS CPR'06 - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 114-119

  Kvasny, Lynette ^a   Payton, Fay Cobb ^b   Mbarika, Victor ^c   Chong, Jing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Gender; Information Technology Workforce

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE BUILDINGS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DIGITAL DIVIDE; GENDER; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (ICT); INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WORKFORCE;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 33745847541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125170.1125202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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