Women into Computing

1. Young Women and Education

   1. Profile of Glasgow “WiC” Girls

      • Helen D. Watt

      Pages 124-129

   2. The Gender Gap in Secondary School Computer Use

      • Peter Glissov

      Pages 130-144

   3. School and Industry Links — An Example of Co-operation

      • Irene M. Pacitti

      Pages 145-151

2. Higher and Further Education

   1. Choice and Image: Gender and Computer Studies in Higher Education

      • Alan Durndell

      Pages 152-160

   2. Computer Attitudes, Interface Preference And Simple Task Performance

      • Konrad Morgan, Shirley Gibbs, Hamish Macleod, Robert Morris

      Pages 161-172

   3. An Analysis of Attempts to Remember that Some Students are Female

      • Karen Shipp, Dianne Sutton

      Pages 173-187

   4. Home-based Computing for Women Students

      • Gill Kirkup, Ruth Carter, Laurie Keller, Jenny Lewis, Chris Saxton, Dianne Sutton

      Pages 188-195

   5. Making a Place for Women in Computing

      • J. K. Bansal

      Pages 196-200

   6. Initiatives for Recruitment of Female Undergraduates

      • Janet Johnson, Dave Arnold

      Pages 201-207

   7. Industrial Placements: Women’s Experience

      • Carolyn Whitesmith

      Pages 208-210

   8. Does a Masculine Management Style Deter Women Applicants?

      • Nicky Gunson, Peter Fielder

      Pages 211-216

   9. IT: Issues including Role Models and Routes to Promotion

      • Anne Leeming

      Pages 217-220

   10. Information Technology — Art or Science?

       • Kathy Buckner

       Pages 221-226

   11. Women: The Hidden Users of Computers

       • Valerie Looney

       Pages 227-232

3. Women Returners

   1. Encouraging Women Returners into Computing Courses in Higher Education

      • E. C. P. Sears

      Pages 233-239

   2. Women Returners and Higher Education — Initiatives at Sunderland Polytechnic

      • Marilyn Ramshaw

      Pages 240-243

   3. Women Returners: New Initiatives and Experiences

      • Jacquie Powney, Janet Toland

      Pages 244-249

   4. SWIM: Scottish Women Returners study Information Technology Management

      • Helen D. Watt

      Pages 250-256

   5. WISE UP: A New Course for Women Returners Run at Reading

      • Jennifer Stapleton, Shirley Williams, Jane Goodwin

      Pages 257-263

   6. Women Returners: Finding the Gaps

      • Cynthia McLain

      Pages 264-267

This book contains the majority of the papers presented at the 1990 Women into Computing Conference, together with selected papers from the 1989 and 1988 Conferences. In 1988, the main theme running through the Conference was that of dismay at the low number of women taking computing courses or following computing careers. The 1989 Conference was concerned solely with workshops for schoolgirls and the 1990 Conference concentrated on strategies rather than an assessment of the situation. As editors, we set as our task to make a selection of papers presenting the overall picture in 1990. We found that many of the issues discussed in 1988 are still a cause for concern in 1990, but that strategies to improve the situation are many and varied. Section I contains speeches from the invited speakers and needs little introduction. Section II contains papers covering so me attitudes and issues of concern, ranging from the specific (Gill Russell on child care and Laurie Keller on hacker mentality) through to broader aspects of gender inequality (the papers of Flis Henwood, Margaret Bruce and Alison Adam, and Lyn Bryant). Susan Jones takes a look at the reasons why we should want to see more women in computing, whilst Gillian Lovegrove and Wendy Hall present a more general paper on school and higher education.

• Gender
• Information Technology (IT)
• computing
• cooperation
• demography
• education
• management
• software engineering
• women

• Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

  Gillian Lovegrove

• Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK

  Barbara Segal

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