Women into Computing

Section 1: Invited Speakers.- 1. Women into Computing: The Need for Positive Action Now.- 2. Beyond the Great Divide.- 3. Computing in Schools: the Same Old Story.- 4. Getting Women into Computing.- 5. Attracting Women Returners in Computing.- 6. Employer - Education Cooperation.- Section II: Attitudes and Issues.- 7. Where Are the Girls Now?.- 8. Young Women and the Culture of Software Engineering.- 9. Expert Systems - A Women's Perspective.- 10. Removed From Power.- 11. Why Do We Want To See More Women in Computing?.- 12. Machismo and the Hacker Mentality.- 13. Child Care Provision in Higher Education: A Case Study.- Section III: Young Women and Education.- 14. Opting Out Of Technology: A Study of Girls' GCSE Choices.- 15. Action Research: Primary Schoolgirls and New Technology.- 16. IT Teaching in Schools - Gender Bias in the Secondary School.- 17. Girls and Computing - A Case Study.- 18. Observations of Attitudes to IT in Database Use in Schools.- 19. A Study of Computing Experiences of Female A-Level Maths Students.- 20. Profile of Glasgow "WiC" Girls.- 21. The Gender Gap in Secondary School Computer Use.- 22. School and Industry Links - An Example of Co-operation.- Section IV: Higher and Further Education.- 23. Choice and Image: Gender and Computer Studies in Higher Education.- 24. Computer Attitudes, Interface Preference And Simple Task Performance.- 25. An Analysis of Attempts to Remember that Some Students are Female.- 26. Home-based Computing for Women Students.- 27. Making a Place for Women in Computing.- 28. Initiatives for Recruitment of Female Undergraduates.- 29. Industrial Placements: Women's Experience.- 30. Does a Masculine Management Style Deter Women Applicants?.- 31. IT: Issues including Role Models and Routes to Promotion.- 32.Information Technology - Art or Science?.- 33. Women: The Hidden Users of Computers.- Section V: Women Returners.- 34. Encouraging Women Returners into Computing Courses in Higher Education.- 35. Women Returners and Higher Education - Initiatives at Sunderland Polytechnic.- 36. Women Returners: New Initiatives and Experiences.- 37. SWIM: Scottish Women Returners Study Information Technology Management.- 38. WISE UP: A New Course for Women Returners Run at Reading.- 39. Women Returners: Finding the Gaps.- 40. 'Managing With Computers' at the Women and Work Programme.- 41. Why do Women Normally Re-enter the Work Force?.- 42. The Women into Information Technology (WIT) Campaign.- Section VI: Careers.- 43. Networking and the UK Federation of Business and Professional Women.- 44. Women's Career Paths in Artificial Intelligence.- 45. Management: Practical Experiences in the UK and Canada.- Section VII: WiC Activities.- 46. Grassroot Groups - Experiences in Horticultural Cultivation.- 47. Experiences of One Day Workshops for Schoolgirls.- 48. Getting Women into Computing: Strategies for Overcoming Prejudice.- 49. Girls into IT at Stockton Sixth Form College, Cleveland.- 50. Insight into Attitudes to Computing.- 51. Action Stations: Let's Organise a Workshop for Schoolgirls!.- 52. No Previous Experience Necessary.- 53. Southampton WiC Workshops.- 54. The Edinburgh Women in Computing Workshops.- Section VIII: International and Cultural.- 55. Scenes from Europe.- 56. Women in Technology in the European Community.- 57 Gender Bias: The East-West Paradox.- 58. Paradox and Practice: Gender in Computing and Engineering in Eastern Europe.- 59. Women into Computing: Some Experience from New Zealand.- Appendix A: Bibliography.- Appendix B: Useful Addresses.- Author Index.