Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Gender codes Gender codes Thomas J. Misa The computing profession is facing a serious gender crisis. Women are abandoning the computing field. This book explains the complex social and cultural processes at work in gender and computing toda… OL16241369W
Unlocking the clubhouse Unlocking the clubhouse Jane Margolis,Allan Fisher "The information technology revolution is transforming almost every aspect of society, but girls and women are largely out of the loop. Although women surf the Web in equal numbers to men and make th… OL16919418W
Encyclopedia of gender and information technology Encyclopedia of gender and information technology Eileen Moore Trauth "This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher OL18208101W
Team BFF (Girls Who Code) Team BFF (Girls Who Code) Stacia Deutsch After signing up for a "hackathon" day of coding, Sophia and her coding club friends welcome a robotics expert into their group, but find their teamwork challenged by conflicting opinions. OL19662707W
Digital divas Digital divas Julie L. Fisher The geek is male. Or so it seems. As is well documented, there is a distinct under-representation of girls studying computing at high school level and, correspondingly, going on to have careers in IT… OL20018462W
Geek Girl Rising Geek Girl Rising Samantha Parent Walravens,Heather Cabot This book "isn't about the famous tech trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens introduce readers to th… OL20060327W