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Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: A Historical and Social Study de William Aspray

Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: A Historical and Social Study: History of Computing

Autor William Aspray
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2018
This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.S. The work reviews the underlying causes, as well as the efforts of various nonprofit organizations to correct the situation, in order to both improve social equity and address the shortage of skilled workers in this area. Topics and features: presents a digest and historical overview of the relevant literature from a range of disciplines, including leading historical and social science sources; discusses the social and political factors that have affected the demographics of the workforce from the end of WWII to the present day; provides historical case studies on organizations that have sought to broaden participation in computing and the STEM disciplines; reviews the different approaches that have been applied to address underrepresentation, at the individual, system-wide, and pathway-focused level; profiles the colleges and universities that have been successful in opening up computer science or engineering to female students; describes the impact of individual change-agents as well as whole organizations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319796819
ISBN-10: 331979681X
Pagini: 271
Ilustrații: XI, 271 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria History of Computing

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Introduction.- Part I: Digest of Relevant Literatures.- Opening STEM Careers to Women.- Opening STEM Careers to African Americans.- Opening STEM Careers to Hispanics.- Opening STEM Careers to American Indians.- Part II: Case Studies.- Organizations That Help Women to Build STEM Careers.- Organizations That Help Underrepresented Minorities to Build STEM Careers.- Organizations That Help Women Build Computing Careers.- Organizations That Help Underrepresented Minorities Build Computing Careers.- Building Educational Infrastructures for Broadening Participation in Computing.

Recenzii

“Aspray (Univ. of Colorado Boulder), a well-known historian of the computer, aims to encourage primary source research into the participation and contributions of women, African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians. … Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.” (A. K. Ackerberg-Hastings, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017)

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This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.S. The work reviews the underlying causes, as well as the efforts of various nonprofit organizations to correct the situation, in order to both improve social equity and address the shortage of skilled workers in this area.
Topics and features:
  • Presents a digest and historical overview of the relevant literature from a range of disciplines, including leading historical and social science sources
  • Discusses the social and political factors that have affected the demographics of the workforce from the end of WWII to the present day
  • Provides historical case studies on organizations that have sought to broaden participation in computing and the STEM disciplines
  • Reviews the different approaches that have been applied to address underrepresentation, at the individual,system-wide, and pathway-focused level
  • Profiles the colleges and universities that have been successful in opening up computer science or engineering to female students
  • Describes the impact of individual change-agents as well as whole organizations
This valuable study will be of great interest to a varied readership, including computer scientists, social scientists studying science and technology, race and gender scholars, education historians, policy scholars, and historians of computing.
Dr. William Aspray is a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His other Springer publications include Participation in Computing, Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy and Food in the Internet Age.

Caracteristici

Examines the highly neglected subject of race in the history of science and technology Reviews the history of women in computing within a larger social and cultural context not found in other studies by computer historians Discusses efforts in STEM and computing education to broaden participation of women and minorities in these fields Highlights the role of professional nonprofit organizations in the history of computing