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Conceptualising the influence of cultural and gender factors on students' perceptions of IT studies and careers

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S. H. Nielsen,

L. A. von Hellens,

A. Greenhill,

R. PringleAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCPR '98: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research

Pages 86 - 95

https://doi.org/10.1145/279179.279192

Published: 01 June 1998 Publication History

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