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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 44 , Issue 5 (May 2001) table of contents

Pages: 108 - 114

Year of Publication: 2001

ISSN:0001-0782

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J. McGrath Cohoon

University of Virginia

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	Elizabeth S. Adams , Orit Hazzan , Hrafn Loftsson , Alison Young, International perspective of women and computer science, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.35 n.1, p.45-46, January 2003
	J McGrath Cohoon , Rebecca Shwalb , Lih-Yuan Chen, Faculty turnover in CS departments, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.35 n.1, January 2003
	J. McGrath Cohoon, Must there be so few?: including women in CS, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 03-10, 2003, Portland, Oregon
	Malu Roldan , Louise Soe , Elaine K. Yakura, Perceptions of chilly IT organizational contexts and their effect on the retention and promotion of women in IT, Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Careers, culture, and ethics in a networked environment, April 22-24, 2004, Tucson, AZ, USA
	Andrea H. Tapia , Lynette Kvasny , Eileen M. Trauth, Is there a retention gap for women and minorities? the case for moving in versus moving up, Strategies for managing IS/IT personnel, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2004
	Amy Woszczynski , Martha Myers , Catherine Beise, Women in information technology, Strategies for managing IS/IT personnel, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2004
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	Sarah B. Berenson , Kelli M. Slaten , Laurie Williams , Chih-Wei Ho, Voices of women in a software engineering course: reflections on collaboration, Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), v.4 n.1, p.3-es, March 2004
	Wendy Cukier, Constructing the IT skills shortage in Canada: the implications of institutional discourse and practices for the participation of women, Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce, April 10-12, 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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	Laurie Williams , Lucas Layman , Kelli M. Slaten , Sarah B. Berenson , Carolyn Seaman, On the Impact of a Collaborative Pedagogy on African American Millennial Students in Software Engineering, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering, p.677-687, May 20-26, 2007
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	Lori Pollock, Rethinking pedagogy for teaching PL with more than PL concepts in mind, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.43 n.11, November 2008
	Gloria Childress Townsend , Lecia Barker , Suzanne Menzel , J. McGrath Cohoon, Grace hopper visits the neighborhood, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.40 n.1, March 2008
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
Subjects: Computer science education

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"Doris Keefe Lidtke : Reviewer"

Cohoon has done considerable research in 23 co-educational, 4-year institutions in Virginia that offer a major in computer science. Her study deals primarily with the difference in the rate at which women and men switch from the computer science m more...

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