Women in computing - -Take 2

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 68-76

  Klawe, Maria ^a   Whitney, Telle ^b   Simard, Caroline ^b  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN COUNTRIES; GLOBAL CHANGES; LONG TERMS; UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS; UNIVERSITY DEGREES; WOMEN IN COMPUTING;

EID: 58849149564     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1461928.1461947     Document Type: Article

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