Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving ComputingISBN: 978-0-470-59719-4
Paperback
328 pages
July 2010, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
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The computing profession faces a serious gender crisis. Today,
fewer women enter computing than anytime in the past 25 years. This
book provides an unprecedented look at the history of women and men
in computing, detailing how the computing profession emerged and
matured, and how the field became male coded. Women's experiences
working in offices, education, libraries, programming, and
government are examined for clues on how and where women
succeeded—and where they struggled. It also provides a unique
international dimension with studies examining the U.S., Great
Britain, Germany, Norway, and Greece. Scholars in history,
gender/women's studies, and science and technology studies, as well
as department chairs and hiring directors will find this volume
illuminating.