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  • The Gender Gap: Is it a computing problem or simply a computer science problem?

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    Glass, Robert L
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    Glass, Robert L.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    WHEN I GOT started in this field 57 (ugh!) years ago, one of the things no one ever worried about was its gender balance. It simply wasn't on our radar all those years ago. Why? Well, for one thing, there were no academic computing disciplines-they wouldn't appear for another 15 years-so it didn't matter how many women were taking coursework in the field because there was no such coursework. But perhaps more importantly, there simply wasn't a shortage of female software practitioners. In the cubicles of the companies I worked for back then, my recollection is that around 50 percent of our programmers were women.WHEN I GOT started in this field 57 (ugh!) years ago, one of the things no one ever worried about was its gender balance. It simply wasn't on our radar all those years ago. Why? Well, for one thing, there were no academic computing disciplines-they wouldn't appear for another 15 years-so it didn't matter how many women were taking coursework in the field because there was no such coursework. But perhaps more importantly, there simply wasn't a shortage of female software practitioners. In the cubicles of the companies I worked for back then, my recollection is that around 50 percent of our programmers were women.
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    Journal Title
    IEEE Software
    Volume
    29
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2012.44
    Subject
    Information systems
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49314
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