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Reconfiguring the Firewall: Recruiting Women to Information Technology across Cultures and Continents - Hardcover

 
9781568813141: Reconfiguring the Firewall: Recruiting Women to Information Technology across Cultures and Continents
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1568813147 ISBN 13: 9781568813141
Verlag: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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. 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, this collection includes contributions by top researchers and IT professionals, including William Aspray, Bettina Bair, Sarah Berenson, Lenore Blum, Carol J. Burger, Elizabeth G. Creamer, J. McGrath Cohoon, M. Bernardine Dias, Carol Frieze, Orit Hazzan, Ann Howe, Jane Butler Kahle, Sarah Kuhn, Anne Laughlin, Soyoung Lee, Paula G. Leventman, Holly Lord, Miranda Marcus, Cecille Marsh, Peggy S. Meszaros, Joan Michael, Lesley H. Parker, Paula Rayman, Mladen Vouk, Lesley Warner, Laurie Williams, and Judith Wooller.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Carol J. Burger, Elizabeth G. Creamer, Peggy S. Meszaros

Dr. Carol J. Burger is an Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and coordinator of the Science and Gender Equity Program at Virginia Tech. She is the founder and editor of the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, now in its 10th year of publication.Dr. Elizabeth G. Creamer is professor of educational research in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech, and Director of Research and Assessment for VTAdvance, a project funded by the National Science Foundation to advance the climate for women in science and engineering.Dr. Peggy S. Meszaros is professor of Human Development and Director of the Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth, and Families at Virginia Tech. She has published over 80 scholarly articles and book chapters.

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Verlag
A K Peters/CRC Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1568813147
ISBN 13 
9781568813141
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
279
Herausgeber
Burger Carol J., Creamer Elizabeth G., Meszaros Peggy S.
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