LEADER 04162nam 22005415 450 001 9910255000303321 005 20200702035632.0 010 $a3-319-24811-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-24811-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000749169 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-24811-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4591685 035 $z(PPN)258860057 035 $a(PPN)194512207 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000749169 100 $a20160711d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing $eA Historical and Social Study /$fby William Aspray 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 271 p. 1 illus.) 225 1 $aHistory of Computing,$x2190-6831 311 $a3-319-24809-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Part I: Digest of Relevant Literatures -- Opening STEM Careers to Women -- Opening STEM Careers to African Americans -- Opening STEM Careers to Hispanics -- Opening STEM Careers to American Indians -- Part II: Case Studies -- Organizations That Help Women to Build STEM Careers -- Organizations That Help Underrepresented Minorities to Build STEM Careers -- Organizations That Help Women Build Computing Careers -- Organizations That Help Underrepresented Minorities Build Computing Careers -- Building Educational Infrastructures for Broadening Participation in Computing. 330 $aThis text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.S. The work reviews the underlying causes, as well as the efforts of various nonprofit organizations to correct the situation, in order to both improve social equity and address the shortage of skilled workers in this area. Topics and features: Presents a digest and historical overview of the relevant literature from a range of disciplines, including leading historical and social science sources Discusses the social and political factors that have affected the demographics of the workforce from the end of WWII to the present day Provides historical case studies on organizations that have sought to broaden participation in computing and the STEM disciplines Reviews the different approaches that have been applied to address underrepresentation, at the individual, system-wide, and pathway-focused level Profiles the colleges and universities that have been successful in opening up computer science or engineering to female students Describes the impact of individual change-agents as well as whole organizations This valuable study will be of great interest to a varied readership, including computer scientists, social scientists studying science and technology, race and gender scholars, education historians, policy scholars, and historians of computing. Dr. William Aspray is a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His other Springer publications include Participation in Computing, Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy and Food in the Internet Age. 410 0$aHistory of Computing,$x2190-6831 606 $aComputers 606 $aScience$xStudy and teaching 606 $aHistory of Computing$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I24024 606 $aScience Education$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O27000 615 0$aComputers. 615 0$aScience$xStudy and teaching. 615 14$aHistory of Computing. 615 24$aScience Education. 676 $a004.082 700 $aAspray$b William$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$025460 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255000303321 996 $aWomen and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing$92156528 997 $aUNINA