Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation

By: Aspray, William, Jr.

Computing remains a heavily male-dominated field even after twenty-five years of extensive efforts to promote female participation. The contributors to Women and Information Technology look at reasons for the persistent gender imbalance in computing and explore some strategies intended to reverse the downward trend. The studies included are rigorous social science investigations; they rely on empirical evidence--not rhetoric, hunches, folk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262533073
• ISBN13: 9780262533072
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher