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What attracts women to CS?

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Vicki L. Almstrum,

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 37, Issue 3

Page 378

https://doi.org/10.1145/1151954.1067579

Published: 27 June 2005 Publication History

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This poster presents the findings of a study that used grounded theory methodology to analyze hypothesized reasons for why women choose computing as a profession. Preliminary analysis has resulted in four categories of attraction factors that validate research results from other gender studies.

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Almstrum, V. L. What is the Attraction to Computing? Communications of the ACM, 46(9), 51--55.

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Teague, G. J. (2000). Women in computing: What brings them to it, what keeps them in it? GATES, 5(1), 45--49.

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What attracts women to CS?
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 37, Issue 3

September 2005

418 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1151954

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ITiCSE '05: Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2005
440 pages
ISBN:1595930248
DOI:10.1145/1067445
Conference Chairs:
José Cunha
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
,
William Fleischman
Villanova University
,
Program Chairs:
Viera K. Proulx
Northeastern University
,
João Lourenço
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

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Published: 27 June 2005

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