Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: A Historical and Social Study - Couverture souple

Aspray, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 331979681X ISBN 13 : 9783319796819

Editeur : Springer, 2018

Synopsis

This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.S. The work reviews the underlying causes, as well as the efforts of various nonprofit organizations to correct the situation, in order to both improve social equity and address the shortage of skilled workers in this area. Topics and features: presents a digest and historical overview of the relevant literature from a range of disciplines, including leading historical and social science sources; discusses the social and political factors that have affected the demographics of the workforce from the end of WWII to the present day; provides historical case studies on organizations that have sought to broaden participation in computing and the STEM disciplines; reviews the different approaches that have been applied to address underrepresentation, at the individual, system-wide, and pathway-focused level; profiles the colleges and universities that have been successful in opening up computer science or engineering to female students; describes the impact of individual change-agents as well as whole organizations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Aspray is Senior Research Fellow with the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He has formerly taught at Colorado (Boulder), Harvard, Indiana (Bloomington), Texas (Austin), and Williams in departments of mathematical sciences, history of science, or information studies. He has also held senior management positions at the Charles Babbage Institute, Computing Research Association, and the IEEE History Center. He has written on the history of computing and information, information policy, and everyday information behavior. Many years ago, he conducted an oral history interview with Anthony Ralston, the principal editor of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science.

David Hemmendinger is Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and has served as its Editor in Chief. He has taught at Antioch, CUNY, Kenyon, Ohio State, Union, and Wright State in divisions of humanities and in departments of philosophy and of computer science. He has written on philosophy, history of science, computer science, computing history, and computing education. He was a co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science and has written over 20 articles for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.S. The work reviews the underlying causes, as well as the efforts of various nonprofit organizations to correct the situation, in order to both improve social equity and address the shortage of skilled workers in this area.

Topics and features:

• Presents a digest and historical overview of the relevant literature from a range of disciplines, including leading historical and social science sources
• Discusses the social and political factors that have affected the demographics of the workforce from the end of WWII to the present day
• Provides historical case studies on organizations that have sought to broaden participation in computing and the STEM disciplines
• Reviews the different approaches that have been applied to address underrepresentation, at the individual, system-wide, and pathway-focused level
• Profiles the colleges and universities that have been successful in opening up computer science or engineering to female students
• Describes the impact of individual change-agents as well as whole organizations

This valuable study will be of great interest to a varied readership, including computer scientists, social scientists studying science and technology, race and gender scholars, education historians, policy scholars, and historians of computing.

Dr. William Aspray is a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His other Springer publications include Participation in Computing, Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy and Food in the Internet Age.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 331979681X
• ISBN 13: 9783319796819
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 271
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