Reconfiguring the firewall : recruiting women to information technology across cultures and continents / edited by Carol J. Burger, Elizabeth G. Creamer, and Peggy S. Meszaros.
Information processing and information technology career interest and choice among high school students / and Introduction -- Sizing up the information technology firewall / Anne Laughlin -- Elizabeth G. Creamer, and Peggy S. Meszaros -- 1. Predicting women's interest and choice in a career in information technology : a statistical model / Elizabeth G. Creamer, Soyoung Lee, and Peggy S. Meszaros -- pt. 2. The secondary school level -- Revisiting culture, time, and information processing factors in connecting to girls' interest and choice of an information technology career at the secondary level / Peggy S. Meszaros and Jane Butler Kahle -- 2. Changing the high school culture to promote interest in information technology careers among high-achieving girls / Ann Howe, Sarah Berenson, and Mladen Vouk -- 3. Examining time as a factor in young women's information technology career decisions / Sarah Berenson, Laurie Williams, Joan Michael, and Mladen Vouk -- 4. Information processing and information technology career interest and choice among high school students / Peggy S. Meszaros, Soyoung Lee and Anne Laughlin -- and Barriers to women in science : a cautionary tale for the information technology community / Considering individual, social, and cultural factors in the construction of women's interest and persistence in information technology at the post-secondary level / Judith Wooller -- and Lesley H. Parker -- 5. A cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing / Lenore Blum, Carol Frieze, Orit Hazzan, and M. Bernardine Dias -- 6. Sociopolitical factors and female students' choice of information technology careers : a South African perspective / Cecille Marsh -- 7. Women's entry to graduate study in computer science and computer engineering in the United States / J. McGrath Cohoon and Holly Lord -- 8. Women's interest in information technology : the fun factor / Bettina Bair and Miranda Marcus -- pt. 4. Information technology careers -- Women and information technology careers / Carol J. Burger and William Aspray -- 9. Women on the edge of change : employees in United States information technology companies / Sarah Kuhn and Paula Rayman -- 10. Multiple pathways toward gender equity in the United States information technology workforce / Paula G. Leventman -- 11. Barriers to women in science : a cautionary tale for the information technology community / Lesley Warner and Judith Wooller -- and Index. Refocusing our lens to hack the firewall / Anne Laughlin -- Elizabeth G. Creamer, Carol J. Burger, and Anne Laughlin -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Contributors -- Index.
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