Date

Readings

• Pioneering Women In Computer Science, Denise Gurer (Available on Twiki)

• Is Diversity in Computing A Moral Matter?, Deborah G. Johnson and Keith W. Miller (Available on Twiki)

• Pale and Male: 19th Century Design in a 21st Century World, Ed Lazowska (Available on Twiki)

• Computing 2002: Democracy, Education and the Future, Anita Borg (Available on Twiki)

• Girls, Boys and Computers, Maria Klawe (Available on Twiki)

• Women In Computing, Wikipedia

October 2

• Does Gender Matter, Ben Barres, Nature, 12 July 2006 (Available on Twiki)

• Wall Street Journal Article or New York Times Article (Available on Twiki)

October 4-7

October 9

• A Conference’s Impact on Undergraduate Female Students, Joan M. Francioni, SIGCSE Bulletin: In Roads, June 2002 (Available on Twiki)

• Incredible Shrinking Pipeline, Tracy Camp, CACM 1997 (Available on Twiki)

• Web Version: PDF

• The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline Unlikely to Reverse, 2000

• CRA Taulbee Trends: Female Students & Faculty

• CRA Bulletin: Computer Science Bachelor's Degrees Granted to Women

• Taulbee Survey, Computing Research Association, 2005

• The National Academics website, Statistics on Women in Science and Engineering

• Interest in CS as a major drops among Incoming Freshman

October 16

• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing , Allan Fisher and Jane Margolis (Class Text)

• As the Culture of Computing Evolves, Similarity can be the Difference, Lenore Blum and Carol Frieze, Gender and IT issue of Frontiers, 26:1 2005

• Unlocking the Clubhouse: The Carnegie Mellon Experience, Allan Fisher and Jane Margolis, SIGCSE Bulletin: In Roads, June 2002

• Engaging Girls in Computer Software Games, Cecilia M. Gorriz and Claudia Medina, Communications of the ACM, January 2000 (Available on Twiki)

• Video: Gender, Lies and Video Games, Maria Klawe.

• Virtual Development Center

• Nepotism and sexism in peer-review, Wennerås & A. Wold, Nature 387:341-343, 1997.

• Our Evaulation of Others: Gender Tutorial 2

• Gender and Achievement-Related Beliefs Among Engineering Students, Heyman et al, 2002

• Ourselves: Gender Tutorial 4

• Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever, 2003 (Class Text)

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