Women and Computer Science

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See Take Our Daughters to Work Day (April 27).

On-line writings about women and computer science include:

• Women Undergraduate Enrollment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT (Final Report of the EECS Women Undergraduate Enrollment Committee)

• Leveson, Nancy. Educational Pipeline Issues for Women. Computing Research News, October 1990 and January 1991.

• Pearl, Amy, Martha E. Pollack, Eve Riskin, Becky Thomas, Elizabeth Wolf, and Alice Wu. Becoming a Computer Scientist. Communications of the ACM, 33(11) (November 1990).

• Frenkel, Karen A. Women and computing. Communications of the ACM, 33(11) (November 1990).

• Strok, Dale. Women in AI. IEEE Expert, 7(4) (August 1992).

• Cottrell, Janet. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: A Consideration of Women and Computing.

• My writings on women and computer science:
  • Newly reformatted: Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?
  • An opening statement to a SIGCSE panel, Creating an Empowering Environment for the Success of Women Students in Undergraduate, Co-Ed Computer Science Programs.
  • Testimony to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
  • Gender Benders, a collection of humor on this topic.
  Bear in mind that some were speeches, so the style may be different from that of a written essay.

• The Ada Project: Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computer Science
• Women Undergraduates in Computer Science
• CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Research
• Bay Area Women in Technology's collection on gender and computer science
• The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
• Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (WICSE) at the University of California, Berkeley
• CMU SCS Women
• Stanford's Women in Computer Science
• Amy Bruckman's archive, including "Gender Swapping on the Internet" (text) (Postscript).
• Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science (E-GEMS) papers:
  • "We Have Never-Forgetful Flowers in Our Garden": Girls' Responses to Electronic Games (Postscript) (abstract).
  • "Exploring Common Conceptions About Boys and Electronic Games" (postscript) (abstract).
  • "Cooperative Learning in the Classroom: The Importance of a Collaborative Environment for Computer-Based Education" (postscript) (abstract).
• INFORM's collection on women's studies, particularly on computing.
• The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education's collection on gender issues in technology.
• The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture's special issue on Gender Issues in Computer Networking.
• Jerome McDonough's Web-sters' Net-Work Women in Information Technology.
• Sex and the Cybergirl, an article that appeared in Mother Jones.
• Survival Skills for Graduate Women, part of Indiana University's Computer Science Graduate Handbook.

• Susan Basow's article Student Ratings of Professors Are Not Gender Blind.
• Advice for computer science research and writing.
• Transcripts from the CRA Workshop on Academic Careers for Women.
• ACM SIGMOD's collection of information on academic careers.
• Computer Science Research Resources.

• Nerd Songs, including "Girls Just Wanna Defun"
• geekgirl

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