Culture and environment as determinants of women's participation in computing: Revealing the "women-CS fit"

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 22-26

  Frieze, Carol ^a   Hazzan, Orit ^b   Blum, Lenore ^c   Dias, M Bernardine ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Culture; Environment; Gender; Women CS fit

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; COMPUTING FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 37849014962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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