| dc.contributor.author | Ross, Lynda | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-23T15:40:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-06-23T15:40:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06-23T15:40:27Z | |
| dc.identifier.other | Canadian Women’s Studies Association Conference (part of the 2007 Congress) in Saskatoon, SK, May 26-30, 2007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149/2551 | |
| dc.description | I attended the pre-conference workshop “Core Training – Shaping Women’s Studies” designed for WMST chairs/department heads/coordinators from across Canada. Aside from meeting other WMST faculty, the session was helpful in understanding the state of affairs for WMST departments across Canada. As programme chair, I was present for the all of the events at the conference (keynotes, roundtables, concurrent sessions, films). The immersion in the events allowed me to both learn from the formal sessions as well as providing the opportunity to spend a lot of time with various delegates networking. I also presented a paper in a panel session that I organized and chaired another session (attached). | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Like other post-secondary institutions in North America, Athabasca University has not been successful in either recruiting or retaining women to its Computing and Information Science programmes. The gradual decline in women’s participation has generally been attributed to the hostile masculine ‘culture’ of the discipline. The current study, through indepth interviews with 19 female and 19 male computer science students, explores notions of the computing ‘culture’ and its perceived impact on women’s place in computer science as well as its effects on the discipline. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Academic & Professional Development Fund (A&PDF) | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 92.927.G972; | |
| dc.title | Computer Science: Where (and why) have all the women gone? | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
