Scaling up women in computing initiatives: What can we learn from a public policy perspective?

ICER 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 61-70

  Patitsas, Elizabeth ^a   Craig, Michelle ^a   Easterbrook, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DIVERSITY INITIATIVE; GENDER DIVERSITY; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY INSTRUMENTS; STEPPING STONE; UNIT OF ANALYSIS; WOMEN IN COMPUTING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 84959292898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2787622.2787725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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