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Men are from toys: women are from tools

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Annual Joint Conference Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education table of contents

Bologna, Italy

POSTER SESSION: Poster session 2 table of contents

Pages: 313 - 313

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-055-8

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Vicki L. Almstrum	University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Mary Z. Last	University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, TX

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This poster compares the hypothesized reasons for why males choose computing versus why females choose computing. Preliminary results of the analysis validate research results from other gender studies.

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	1	Vicki L. Almstrum, What is the attraction to computing?, Communications of the ACM, v.46 n.9, September 2003 [doi>10.1145/903893.903920]
	2	Vicki L. Almstrum , Mary Z. Last, What attracts women to CS?, Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, June 27-29, 2005, Caparica, Portugal
	3	Marc J. Natale, The effect of a male-oriented computer gaming culture on careers in the computer industry, ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, v.32 n.2, p.24-31, June 2002 [doi>10.1145/566522.566526]