WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH ON UNDER-REPRESENTATION

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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 wisdom, or off-the-cuff speculation about supposed innate differences between men and women.
Taking advantage of the recent surge in research in this area, the editors present the latest findings of both qualitative and quantitative studies. Each section begins with an overview of the literature on current research in the field, followed by individual studies. The first section investigates the relationship between gender and information technology among preteens and adolescents, with each study considering what could lead girls' interest in computing to diverge from boys'; the second section, on higher education, includes a nationwide study of computing programs and a cross-national comparison of computing education; the final section, on pathways into the IT workforce, considers both traditional and nontraditional paths to computing careers.
J. McGrath Cohoon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia. She is also a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Women and Information Technology.
William Aspray is Rudy Professor of Informatics in the School of Informatics, Indiana University, and former Executive Director of the Computing Research Association.
Table of contents :
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
I Diverging Interests 1
1 The State of Research on Girls and IT
Lecia J. Barker and William Aspray
2 Examining the Gender Gap in IT by Race: Young Adults' Decisions to Pursue an IT Career
Nicole Zarrett, Oksana Malanchuk, Pamela E. Davis-Kean and Jacquelynne Eccles 55
3 Lost in Translation: Gender and High School Computer Science
Joanna Goode, Rachel Estrella and Jane Margolis 89
4 Recruiting Middle School Girls into IT: Data on Girls' Perceptions and Experiences from a Mixed-Demographic Group
Lecia J. Barker, Eric Snow, Kathy Garvin-Doxas and Tim Weston 115
5 A Critical Review of the Research on Women's Participation in Postsecondary Computing Education
J. McGrath Cohoon and William Aspray 137
II Postsecondary Education 181
6 A Matter of Degrees: Female Underrepresentation in Computer Science Programs Cross-Nationally
Maria Charles and Karen Bradley 183
7 Just Get Over It or Just Get on with It: Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing
J. McGrath Cohoon 205
8 The Poverty of the Pipeline Metaphor: The AAAS/CPST Study of Nontraditional Pathways into IT/CS Education and the Workforce
Jolene Kay Jesse 239
9 Gender Differences among Students in Computer Science and Applied Information Technology
Christine Ogan, Jean C. Robinson, Manju Ahuja and Susan C. Herring 279
10 Confronting the "Socialization" Barrier: Cross-Ethnic Differences in Undergraduate Women's Preference for IT Education
Roli Varma, Amit Prasad and Deepak Kapur 301
11 Women in Computer Science or Management Information Systems Courses: A Comparative Analysis
Sylvia Beyer and Michelle DeKeuster 323
12 Traversing the Undergraduate Curriculum in Computer Science: Where Do Students Stumble?
Sandra Katz, John Aronis, Christine Wilson, David Allbritton and Mary Lou Soffa 351
III Pathways into the Workforce 375
13 The Transition of Women from the Academic World to the IT Workplace: A Review of the Relevant Research
Kathryn M. Bartol and William Aspray 377
14 Gender and Professional Commitment among IT Professionals: The Special Case of Female Newcomers to Organizations
Kathryn M. Bartol, Ian O. Williamson and Gosia A. Langa 421
15 Foot in the Door, Mouse in Hand: Low-Income Women, Short-Term Job Training Programs, and IT Careers
Karen Chapple 439
Conclusion
Contributors
Index


Auteur : ASPRAY
Editeur : M.I.T. PRESS
Nombre de pages : 512
Date de publication : 05 2006

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