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Increasing gender diversity in the IT work force

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Want to increase participation of women in IT work? Change the work.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 5
          Security in the Browser
          May 2009
          132 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/1506409
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