Description The computing profession is facing a serious gender crisis. Women are abandoning the computing field. This book explains the complex social and cultural processes at work in gender and computing today. Through engaging historical accounts, this book tells the stories of women programmers, systems analysts, managers, and IT executives who flooded this field. (from WorldCat) Includes:
Chapter Downey, Greg J. (2010) Gender and computing in the push-button library. In: Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing (p. 143).
Chapter Haigh, Thomas (2010) Masculinity and the machine man. In: Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing.
Chapter Corneliussen, Hilde G. (2010) Cultural perceptions of computers in Norway 1980- 2007. In: Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing.
Chapter Misa, ThomasJ. (2010) Gender codes: Defining the problem. In: Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing (p. 3).
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