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Increasing gender diversity in the IT work force

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LeAnne Coder,

Joshua L Rosenbloom,

Ronald A. Ash,

Brandon R. DupontAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 5

Pages 25 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/1506409.1506417

Published: 01 May 2009 Publication History

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

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Increasing gender diversity in the IT work force
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing and business
    2. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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