Why are some STEM fields more gender balanced than others?

S Cheryan, SA Ziegler, AK Montoya… - Psychological bulletin, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Women obtain more than half of US undergraduate degrees in biology, chemistry, and
mathematics, yet they earn less than 20% of computer science, engineering, and physics …

Effective measures to foster girls' interest in secondary computer science education: A literature review

L Happe, B Buhnova, A Koziolek, I Wagner - Education and Information …, 2021 - Springer
The interest of girls in computing drops early during primary and secondary education, with
minimal recovery in later education stages. In combination with the growing shortage of …

Black women speak: Examining power, privilege, and identity in CS education

YA Rankin, JO Thomas, S Erete - ACM Transactions on Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Despite the increasing number of women receiving bachelor's degrees in computing (ie,
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, etc.), a closer look …

The trouble with 'women in computing': a critical examination of the deployment of research on the gender gap in computer science

A Vitores, A Gil-Juárez - Journal of Gender Studies, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The pessimistic scenario for 'women in information communications technology'and for
'women in technology'generally is even more paradoxical and insidious with respect to …

LilyPad in the wild: how hardware's long tail is supporting new engineering and design communities

L Buechley, BM Hill - Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
This paper examines the distribution, adoption, and evolution of an open-source toolkit we
developed called the LilyPad Arduino. We track the two-year history of the kit and its user …

Real talk: Saturated sites of violence in CS education

YA Rankin, JO Thomas, S Erete - Proceedings of the 52nd ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Despite numerous CS education pedagogical interventions, the pipeline of Black women in
Computing has not increased, which illustrates the need to address structural issues (such …

[BOOK][B] Computer games: Text, narrative and play

D Carr - 2006 - books.google.com
Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time.
Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood …

Are computer science and information technology still masculine fields? High school students' perceptions and career choices

M Papastergiou - Computers & education, 2008 - Elsevier
This study investigated Greek high school students' intentions and motivation towards and
against pursuing academic studies in Computer Science (CS), the influence of the family …

Directions for research on gender imbalance in the IT profession

E Gorbacheva, J Beekhuyzen… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
There is a significant shortage of expert Information Technology (IT) personnel in Europe
and elsewhere and a marked under-representation of women in the field. This paper …

Gamification

E Sanchez, H van Oostendorp, JD Fijnheer… - … of Education and …, 2020 - Springer
Digital game-based learning (DGBL) is increasingly being used to refer to the use of games
for expected learning outcomes. The expression emphasizes the importance of the context …