Women and Computer Science

Picture obtained from Mike Muuss's collection of historic computer images.

On-line writings about women and computer science include:

• Women Undergraduate Enrollment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT (Final Report of the EECS Women Undergraduate Enrollment Committee)

• Leveson, Nancy. Educational Pipeline Issues for Women. Computing Research News, October 1990 and January 1991.

• Pearl, Amy, Martha E. Pollack, Eve Riskin, Becky Thomas, Elizabeth Wolf, and Alice Wu. Becoming a Computer Scientist. Communications of the ACM, 33(11) (November 1990).

• Frenkel, Karen A. Women and computing. Communications of the ACM, 33(11) (November 1990).

• Strok, Dale. Women in AI. IEEE Expert, 7(4) (August 1992).

• Cottrell, Janet. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: A Consideration of Women and Computing (PDF).

• My writings on women and computer science:
  • "Social and Technical Means for Fighting On-Line Harassment", presented at Virtue and Virtuality: Gender, Law, and Cyberspace
  • My Thoughts on Web Pages Listing Women
  • Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?
  • An opening statement to a SIGCSE panel, Creating an Empowering Environment for the Success of Women Students in Undergraduate, Co-Ed Computer Science Programs.
  • Testimony to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
  • Gender Benders, a collection of humor on this topic.
• The history of women in computing
  • Column on Women in Computing, from IEEE Computer, October 1996.

• The Ada Project: Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computer Science
• The 1997 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
• National Science Foundation data on computer science degrees going to women, 1966-94
• Females Active in Computing Technology
• CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Research
• CPSR's Gender Page
• The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing; videotapes are available from University Video Communications
• Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (WICSE) at the University of California, Berkeley
• CMU SCS Women
• Stanford's Women in Computer Science
• Amy Bruckman's archive, including "Gender Swapping on the Internet" (text) (Postscript).
• Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science (E-GEMS) papers:
  • "We Have Never-Forgetful Flowers in Our Garden": Girls' Responses to Electronic Games (Postscript) (abstract).
  • "Exploring Common Conceptions About Boys and Electronic Games" (postscript) (abstract).
  • "Cooperative Learning in the Classroom: The Importance of a Collaborative Environment for Computer-Based Education" (postscript) (abstract).
• INFORM's collection on women's studies, particularly on computing.
• The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education's collection on gender issues in technology.
• The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture's special issue on Gender Issues in Computer Networking.
• Jerome McDonough's Web-sters' Net-Work Women in Information Technology.
• Survival Skills for Graduate Women, part of Indiana University's Computer Science Graduate Handbook.
• Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC) Women's Programs
• Prof. Sherry Turkle's syllabus for Gender, Technology, and Computer Culture
• Association for Women in Computing

• Susan Basow's article Student Ratings of Professors Are Not Gender Blind
• Advice for computer science research and writing
• Transcripts and Statistics from the CRA Workshop on Academic Careers for Women
• Computer Science Research Resources
• Phil Agre's Networking on the Network

• The Alan Turing Website (San Francisco mirror of Oxford source), maintained by Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: the Enigma
• Nerd Songs, including "Girls Just Wanna Defun"
• geekgirl
• Virtual Sisterhood
• Women's Studies at the University of Antwerp

Please send in additions, corrections, and suggestions.