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Reconfiguring the firewall : recruiting women to information technology across cultures and continents
- Title
- Reconfiguring the firewall : recruiting women to information technology across cultures and continents / edited by Carol J. Burger, Elizabeth G. Creamer, and Peggy S. Meszaros.
- Publication
- Wellesley, Mass. : AK Peters, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- viii, 279 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This comprehensive volume addresses the global challenge of recruiting girls and women into majors and careers in information technology. The studies are both illuminating and prescriptive for designing and implementing intervention programs. This book is an essential tool for: college faculty and advisors who implement activities and programs designed to promote the success of women in science and engineering, as well as those who fund these programs; academic researchers; K-12 educators; and IT industry professionals committed to a diverse workforce."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Recruiting women to information technology
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Sizing up the information technology firewall / Carol J. Burger, Elizabeth G. Creamer and Peggy S. Meszaros -- 1. Predicting women's interest in and choice of a career in information technology : a statistical model / Elizabeth G. Creamer, Soyoung Lee and Peggy S. Meszaros -- Revisiting culture, time, and information processing factors in connecting to girls' interest and choice of an information technology career at the secondary level / Peggy S. Meszaros and Jane Butler Kahle -- 2. Changing the high school culture to promote interest in information technology careers among high-achieving girls / Ann Howe, Sarah Berenson and Mladen Vouk -- 3. Examining time as a factor in young women's information technology career decisions / Sarah Berenson, Laurie Williams, Joan Michael and Mladen Vouk -- 4. Information processing and information technology career interest and choice among high school students / Peggy S. Meszaros, Soyoung Lee and Anne Laughlin -- Considering individual, social, and cultural factors in the construction of women's interest and persistence in information technology at the post-secondary level / Elizabeth G. Creamer and Lesley H. Parker -- 5. A cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing / Lenore Blum, Carol Frieze, Orit Hazzan and M. Bernardine Dias -- 6. Sociopolitical factors and female students' choice of information technology careers : a South African perspective / Cecille Marsh -- 7. Women's entry to graduate study in computer science and computer engineering in the United States / J. McGrath Cohoon and Holly Lord -- 8. Women's interest in information technology : the fun factor / Bettina Bair and Miranda Marcus -- Women and information technology careers / Carol J. Burger and William Aspray -- 9. Women on the edge of change : employees in United States information technology companies / Sarah Kuhn and Paula Rayman -- 10. Multiple pathways toward gender equity in the United States information technology workforce / Paula G. Leventman -- 11. Barriers to women in science : a cautionary tale for the information technology community / Lesley Warner and Judith Wooller -- Refocusing our lens to reconfigure the firewall / Peggy S. Meszaros, Elizabeth G. Creamer, Carol J. Burger and Anne Laughlin.
- ISBN
- 9781568813141 (alk. paper)
- 1568813147 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006038895
- OCLC
- OCM77476300
- 77476300
- SCSB-5926901
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries