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Women in computing---take 2

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Maria Klawe,

Telle Whitney,

Caroline SimardAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 2

Pages 68 - 76

https://doi.org/10.1145/1461928.1461947

Published: 01 February 2009 Publication History

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Inspiring, recruiting, and retaining women for a career in computing remains a challenge.

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Inspiring Women in Computing

February 2009

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DOI:10.1145/1461928

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