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Women into Computing

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Women into Computing: The need for Positive Action Now
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    Chapter 2 Beyond the Great Divide
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    Chapter 3 Computing in Schools: the Same Old Story
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    Chapter 4 Getting Women into Computing
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    Chapter 5 Attracting Women Returners in Computing
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    Chapter 6 Employer — Education Cooperation
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    Chapter 7 Where Are the Girls Now?
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    Chapter 8 Young Women and the Culture of Software Engineering
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    Chapter 9 Expert Systems — A Women’s Perspective
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    Chapter 10 Removed From Power
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    Chapter 11 Why Do We Want To See More Women in Computing?
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    Chapter 12 Machismo and the Hacker Mentality
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    Chapter 13 Child Care Provision in Higher Education :- A Case Study
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    Chapter 14 Opting Out Of Technology: A Study of Girls’ GCSE Choices
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    Chapter 15 Action Research: Primary Schoolgirls and New Technology
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    Chapter 16 IT Teaching in Schools — Gender Bias in the Secondary school
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    Chapter 17 Girls and Computing — A Case Study
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    Chapter 18 Observations of Attitudes to IT in Database Use in Schools
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    Chapter 19 A Study of Computing Experiences of Female A-Level Maths Students
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    Chapter 20 Profile of Glasgow “WiC” Girls
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    Chapter 21 The Gender Gap in Secondary School Computer Use
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    Chapter 22 School and Industry Links — An Example of Co-operation
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    Chapter 23 Choice and Image: Gender and Computer Studies in Higher Education
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    Chapter 24 Computer Attitudes, Interface Preference And Simple Task Performance
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    Chapter 25 An Analysis of Attempts to Remember that Some Students are Female
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    Chapter 26 Home-based Computing for Women Students
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    Chapter 27 Making a Place for Women in Computing
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    Chapter 28 Initiatives for Recruitment of Female Undergraduates
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    Chapter 29 Industrial Placements: Women’s Experience
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    Chapter 30 Does a Masculine Management Style Deter Women Applicants?
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    Chapter 31 IT: Issues including Role Models and Routes to Promotion
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    Chapter 32 Information Technology — Art or Science?
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    Chapter 33 Women: The Hidden Users of Computers
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    Chapter 34 Encouraging Women Returners into Computing Courses in Higher Education
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    Chapter 35 Women Returners and Higher Education — Initiatives at Sunderland Polytechnic
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    Chapter 36 Women Returners: New Initiatives and Experiences
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    Chapter 37 SWIM: Scottish Women Returners study Information Technology Management
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    Chapter 38 WISE UP: A New Course for Women Returners Run at Reading
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    Chapter 39 Women Returners: Finding the Gaps
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    Chapter 40 ‘Managing With Computers’ at the Women and Work Programme
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    Chapter 41 Why do Women Normally Re-enter the Work Force?
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    Chapter 42 The Women into Information Technology (WIT) Campaign
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    Chapter 43 Networking and the UK Federation of Business and Professional Women
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    Chapter 44 Women’s Career Paths in Artificial Intelligence
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    Chapter 45 Management: Practical Experiences in the UK and Canada
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    Chapter 46 Grassroot Groups — Experiences in Horticultural Cultivation
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    Chapter 47 Experiences of One Day Workshops for Schoolgirls
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    Chapter 48 Getting Women into Computing: Strategies for Overcoming Prejudice
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    Chapter 49 Girls into IT at Stockton Sixth Form College, Cleveland
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    Chapter 50 Insight into Attitudes to Computing
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    Chapter 51 Action Stations: Let’s Organise a Workshop for Schoolgirls!
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    Chapter 52 No Previous Experience Necessary
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    Chapter 53 Southampton WiC Workshops
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    Chapter 54 The Edinburgh Women in Computing Workshops
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    Chapter 55 Scenes from Europe
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    Chapter 56 Women in Technology in the European Community
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    Chapter 57 Gender Bias: The East-West Paradox
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    Chapter 58 Paradox and Practice: Gender in Computing and Engineering in Easter Europe
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    Chapter 59 Women into Computing: some experience from New Zealand
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Title
Women into Computing
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, June 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-3875-4
ISBNs
978-1-4471-3875-4, 978-3-54-019648-8
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Lovegrove, Gillian, Segal, Barbara

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