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Viewing video-taped role models improves female attitudes toward computer science

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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the twenty-seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Pages: 42 - 46

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-757-X

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Gloria Childress Townsend

Computer Science Department, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Benditt, John (Editor), Gender and the culture of science -- women in science '93, Science, Vol. 260, (April 1993), 383- 432.
	2	The Chronicle of Higher Education, Source: US Department of Education, (June 9, 1995), A37.
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	4	G. Joy Teague , Val A. Clarke, Attracting women to tertiary computing courses, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.25 n.1, p.208-212, March 1993
	5	Townsend, Gloria C., "R & R" for women in computer science ==> "recruit and retain", Proceedings of the Second Annual Midwest Small College Computing Conference, 'v'ol. 1, No. 2, (September 1995), 58-63.

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	Phoenix Moorman , Elizabeth Johnson, Still a stranger here: attitudes among secondary school students towards computer science, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.35 n.3, September 2003
	Joy Teague, A structured review of reasons for the underrepresentation of women in computing, Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian conference on Computer science education, p.91-98, July 1997, The Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
	Gloria Childress Townsend, People who make a difference: mentors and role models, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.34 n.2, June 2002