Gender and diversity in hiring software professionals: What do students say?

ICER'08 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 39-50

  Chinn, Donald ^a   Vandegrift, Tammy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Ethics; Gender; Hiring criteria

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EMPLOYMENT; LAKES; WIMAX;

DIVERSITY; ETHICS; GENDER; HIRING CRITERIA; PROGRAM MANAGERS; SOFTWARE COMPANIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 59249084209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1404520.1404525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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