julie@uwm.EDU (Julie Harris) (06/02/90)
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Kia ora (Greetings),
I am involved in a research project that includes creating a
bibliography. The best way of getting good references is to ask other
people for recommendations rather than do a computer look up where you
don't really know what is in a document.
Our research has developed from a concern about the few women in
Computer Science at Victoria University. We are particularly worried
about the number of women who drop out after the introductory course.
The areas of interest for our research project are:
- women and computer education (especially students)
- women and information technology education (especially students)
- women and mathematics education (especially students)
- women and science education (especially students)
- gender and tertiary (e.g. university) education
We are primarily interested in university education and are
interested how this affects all women including lesbians, non-white
women, and differently abled women.
We are also particularly interested in any research on women
dropping out of computing or other science courses. I believe that
Margaret Benston of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver is doing
something in this area and that she is on the net.
I would really appreciate it if readers of Soc.feminism could
email me the names of their recommended references and a small comment
about what is in each one and why they recommend it. I will post the
complete bibliography to this group.
Julie HARRIS julie@comp.vuw.ac.nz
c/o Computer Science Department
Victoria University of Wellington
Aotearoa (New Zealand).