Notes for Thomas J. Misa Gender Codes: Why Women are Leaving Computing

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Foreword

Preface

Contributors

Part I: Tools for Understanding

1 Gender Codes: Defining the Problem
Thomas J. Misa

Unprecedented decline of women studying computing began falling in the mid 1980s.

(5) Despite these early successes, something unprecedented in the history of the professions hit computing in the mid-1980s: not merely did women stop entering computing in large numbers, but the proportion of women studying computing actually began falling—and it has continued to fall, steadily, all the way through to the present. No other professional field has ever experienced such a decline in the proportion of women in its ranks.

Misa, Thomas J. Gender Codes: Why Women are Leaving Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2010. Print.