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Home-based Computing for Women Students

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Women into Computing

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The Open University (OU) has always recruited a significant proportion of women into its courses: by 1988 32,992 women were registered as undergraduates (46% of total) and 46,555 women had graduated with BA degrees (49% of total graduates). As with all institutions of higher education, women have been much less well represented on courses in maths, science and technology — including computing courses. However, unlike many institutions the OU has managed to encourage women onto courses where computer use is a significant element, see Table 26.1.

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  1. The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Dianne Sutton

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  1. Gill Kirkup
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  2. Ruth Carter
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  3. Laurie Keller
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  1. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO9 5NH, Southampton, UK

    Gillian Lovegrove MA, PhD, MBCS

  2. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, WC1, London, UK

    Barbara Segal BSc

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Kirkup, G., Carter, R., Keller, L., Lewis, J., Saxton, C., Sutton, D. (1991). Home-based Computing for Women Students. In: Lovegrove, G., Segal, B. (eds) Women into Computing. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3875-4_26

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