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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 44 , Issue 6 (June 2001) table of contents

Pages: 27 - 30

Year of Publication: 2001

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Paul De Palma

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 106, Downloads (12 Months): 299, Citation Count: 13

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	1	American Association of University Women. Tech-savvy: Educating girls in the new computer age, 2000; www.aauw.org/2000/ techsavvy.html.
	2	Tracy Camp, The incredible shrinking pipeline, Communications of the ACM, v.40 n.10, p.103-110, Oct. 1997 [doi>10.1145/262793.262813]
	3	Cecilia M. Gorriz , Claudia Medina, Engaging girls with computers through software games, Communications of the ACM, v.43 n.1, p.42-49, Jan. 2000 [doi>10.1145/323830.323843]
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	7	Perlow, L. Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1997.

CITED BY 13

	Peter B. Henderson , Doug Baldwin , Venu Dasigi , Marcel Dupras , Jane Fritz , David Ginat , Don Goelman , John Hamer , Lew Hitchner , Will Lloyd , Bill Marion, Jr. , Charles Riedesel , Henry Walker, Striving for mathematical thinking, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.33 n.4, December 2001
	Peter B. Henderson , Doug Baldwin , Venu Dasigi , Marcel Dupras , Jane Fritz , David Ginat , Don Goelman , John Hamer , Lew Hitchner , Will Lloyd , Bill Marion, Jr. , Charles Riedesel , Henry Walker, Striving for mathematical thinking, Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education, December 01, 2001, Canterbury, UK
	Peter B. Henderson , Paul De Palma , Vicki L. Almstrum , Orit Hazzan , Kim Potter Kihlstrom, Women, mathematics and computer science, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.34 n.1, March 2002
	Nata van der Merwe , Adrie Stander, The retention of women in information technology: a South African perspective, Managing globally with information technology, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2003
	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
	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
	Casey Alt , Owen Astrachan , Jeffrey Forbes , Richard Lucic , Susan Rodger, Social networks generate interest in computer science, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.38 n.1, March 2006
	Mark C. Lewis , Berna Massingill, Graphical game development in CS2: a flexible infrastructure for a semester long project, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.38 n.1, March 2006
	T. Beaubouef , P. McDowell, Computer science: student myths and misconceptions, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v.23 n.6, June 2008
	Carol Edmondson, Real women don't write programs, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.40 n.2, June 2008
	Amruth N. Kumar, The effect of using problem-solving software tutors on the self-confidence of female students, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.40 n.1, March 2008
	Dianna Xu , Douglas Blank , Deepak Kumar, Games, robots, and robot games: complementary contexts for introductory computing education, Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Game development in computer science education, p.66-70, February 27-March 03, 2008, Miami, Florida
	Carol Edmondson, Proglets for first-year programming in Java, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.41 n.2, June 2009

INDEX TERMS

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

Additional Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
K.4.2 Social Issues
Subjects: Employment
K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
K.7.1 Occupations

General Terms:
Human Factors

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