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Unlocking the Clubhouse : Women in Computing
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Author: Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher
List Price: $12.95
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ISBN: 0262632691
Publisher: MIT Press (01 April, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 54,845
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Impressive Results & an Excellent Source of Ideas
I have referred many people to this book as a first class
evaluation of gender differences in technical education
presented along with concrete and practical suggestions on
how to improve. After more than 20 years in the
computer industry, it is a pleasure to read a book that
presents so well the challenges that most young women face
when starting in Engineering.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Illuminating and Inspiring
I found this book both illuminating and inspiring. Based on extensive qualitative research, the authors suggest numerous reasons for the fairly low proportion of women computer science students. They propose some strategies for balancing the numbers and describe the remarkable success of those strategies at Carnegie Mellon University. This book led me to change my own teaching practices in ways that should benefit all of my students, male or female.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Is this really necessary?
The book is an example of research addressing the general question: "Why oh why are other people not passing their lives in a way that I, the researcher, deem appropriate?" There may be a book-length explanation to that, but then again, maybe they just don't feel like it.
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