Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing A Historical and Social Study

• Main Author: Aspray, William
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing AG 2016; Springer International Publishing
• Edition: 1
• Series: History of Computing
• Subjects: Computer Science; History of Computing; Science Education; Science_xStudy and teaching

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...