Recruiting and retaining women in undergraduate computing majors
Recruiting and retaining women in undergraduate computing majors
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本科计算机专业招聘和留住女性
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2002
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J. Cohoon
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J. Cohoon
本文建议的方法，提高女性参与本科计算机科学。这些建议是基于最近和正在进行的关于计算机科学和相关学科性别差距的研究。它们旨在与计算研究协会对研究生课程的建议相结合。（见[18]）以促进妇女参与计算机专业的普遍增加。这里提供的大多数建议可以改善男女的教育环境学生然而，总体的改善可能对妇女特别有利，因为在我们的社会中，妇女在进入和坚持这一领域时通常得不到与男子同等程度的支持。父母、朋友和同学很少鼓励女性选择并继续学习计算机学科。那些宣布主修计算机专业的少数女性在整个教育过程中往往会持续缺乏支持。他们几乎没有女性同伴可以求助。此外，他们自己和其他专业的学生可能会认为他们很奇怪。即使是教师也会用不假思索的言论或基于男性的行为和经验是计算机专业成功的基础的假设的期望来阻止女性。这种支持的缺乏可能会阻碍或削弱妇女对计算机的承诺。此外，当一个部门的条件普遍不利时，那些对纪律承诺减弱的人往往比那些有足够支持来克服条件的人离开的比率更高。
This paper recommends methods for increasing female participation in undergraduate computer science. The recommendations are based on recent and on-going research into the gender gap in computer science and related disciplines They are intended to work in tandem with the Computing Research Association's recommendations for graduate programs (see [18] in this issue) to promote a general increase in women's participation in computing professions.Most of the suggestions offered here could improve the educational environment for both male and female students. However, general improvements are likely to be of particular benefit to women because women in our society do not generally receive the same level of support that men receive for entering and persisting in this field. Parents, friends, and classmates seldom encourage women to choose and continue in a computing discipline. Those few women who declare a computing major tend to experience continued lack of support throughout their education. They have few female peers to call on for help. Furthermore, students in their own and other majors may consider them odd. Even faculty can discourage women with unthinking remarks or with expectations based on the assumption that men's behavior and experience are the basis for success in computing majors. This lack of support can block or weaken women's commitment to computing. Moreover, when conditions in a department are generally unfavorable, those with a weakened commitment to the discipline often leave at higher rates than those who have sufficient support to overcome the conditions.