The computing profession faces a serious gender crisis. Today, fewer women enter computing than anytime in the past 25 years. Efforts by leading IT companies, advocacy groups, and professional societies, including at least $20 million a year from the National Science Foundation, have not reversed women's unprecedented exodus from computing education and the computing workforce. The existing efforts are not working. This book mobilizes history to identify ‘missingpieces’ to provide better insight into the social and cultural processes at work -- and to frame more effective interventions. History shows that computingstarted out outstandingly hospitable to women. Through the 1960s and 1970s, women flooded into the field. Our chapters tell the stories of women working asprogrammers and systems analysts, as managers, and as IT executives. The bookdetails how the computing profession emerged and matured, and how the field became male coded. Women's experiences working in offices, education, libraries, programming, and government are examined for clues on how and where women succeeded -- and where they struggled. The book's historical perspective is literally without precedent. It also provides a unique international dimension with studies examining the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Norway, and Greece.With a foreword by Linda Shafer, CSDP, Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Press.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-59719-4
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés