- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The State of Research on Girls and IT
- 2 Examining the Gender Gap in IT by Race: Young Adults’ Decisions to Pursue an IT Career
- 3 Lost in Translation: Gender and High School Computer Science
- 4 Recruiting Middle School Girls into IT: Data on Girls’ Perceptions and Experiences from a Mixed-Demographic Group
- 5 A Critical Review of the Research on Women’s Participation in Postsecondary Computing Education
- 6 A Matter of Degrees: Female Underrepresentation in Computer Science Programs Cross-Nationally
- 7 Just Get Over It or Just Get On with It: Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing
- 8 The Poverty of the Pipeline Metaphor: The AAAS/CPST Study of Nontraditional Pathways into IT/CS Education and the Workforce
- 9 Gender Differences among Students in Computer Science and Applied Information Technology
- 10 Confronting the “Socialization” Barrier: Cross-Ethnic Differences in Undergraduate Women’s Preference for IT Education
- 11 Women in Computer Science or Management Information Systems Courses: A Comparative Analysis
- 12 Traversing the Undergraduate Curriculum in Computer Science: Where Do Students Stumble?
- 13 The Transition of Women from the Academic World to the IT Workplace: A Review of the Relevant Research
- 14 Gender and Professional Commitment among IT Professionals: The Special Case of Female Newcomers to Organizations
- 15 Foot in the Door, Mouse in Hand: Low-Income Women, Short-Term Job Training Programs, and IT Careers
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
Conclusion
Conclusion
- Chapter:
- (p.471) Conclusion
- Source:
- Women and Information Technology
- Author(s):
J. McGrath Cohoon
William Aspray
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter focuses on the engineering approach to creating gender balance in computing. Just as engineering has produced many benefits in the absence of complete scientific understanding, the hope is that it will lead to parity in computing before we fully understand why women are underrepresented in this and other technology fields. Instead of waiting for full knowledge of a highly complex situation, the plan is to move forward by applying what we know, experimenting, and building on success.
Keywords: gender balance, computing, engineering approach
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The State of Research on Girls and IT
- 2 Examining the Gender Gap in IT by Race: Young Adults’ Decisions to Pursue an IT Career
- 3 Lost in Translation: Gender and High School Computer Science
- 4 Recruiting Middle School Girls into IT: Data on Girls’ Perceptions and Experiences from a Mixed-Demographic Group
- 5 A Critical Review of the Research on Women’s Participation in Postsecondary Computing Education
- 6 A Matter of Degrees: Female Underrepresentation in Computer Science Programs Cross-Nationally
- 7 Just Get Over It or Just Get On with It: Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing
- 8 The Poverty of the Pipeline Metaphor: The AAAS/CPST Study of Nontraditional Pathways into IT/CS Education and the Workforce
- 9 Gender Differences among Students in Computer Science and Applied Information Technology
- 10 Confronting the “Socialization” Barrier: Cross-Ethnic Differences in Undergraduate Women’s Preference for IT Education
- 11 Women in Computer Science or Management Information Systems Courses: A Comparative Analysis
- 12 Traversing the Undergraduate Curriculum in Computer Science: Where Do Students Stumble?
- 13 The Transition of Women from the Academic World to the IT Workplace: A Review of the Relevant Research
- 14 Gender and Professional Commitment among IT Professionals: The Special Case of Female Newcomers to Organizations
- 15 Foot in the Door, Mouse in Hand: Low-Income Women, Short-Term Job Training Programs, and IT Careers
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
