Gender and Technology Resources!

Useful WICS Files & Resources

CS Courses - Advising Reference
A listing of common CS courses and the WICS alumni and officers who have taken them (a great source of advice on these classes!)

Debunking the Geek dictionary
A compiled list of frequently used cs/unix/geeky-in-general terms from one of our WICS roundtables. : )

Websites

The Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
This is a conference held once every four years to highlight the technical and research achievements of female computer scientists.

Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
Anita Borg founded the IWT to increase the impact of women in technology and to increase the positive impact of technology on the lives of the world's women.
 

Stories of Women in Computer Science
These stories have been compiled by the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research. The site has a list of women in roles ranging from academia, to engineering, and even business.

The Ada Project
A clearinghouse for information related to women in computing.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gendergap/
Margolis, J., Fisher, A., Miller, F. (1998d). Computing For A Purpose: Gender and Early Attachment to Computer Science. Working Paper of Women in Computer Science: Closing the Gender Gap in Higher Education Project.

3 Women and 3 Paths, 10 Years Later
A New York Times article about 3 women in technology. You may need membership with the New York Times to access this.

http://www.tech-centric.net
Tech-Centric.net is a leading technology job portal, providing students hundreds of daily openings throughout the country, full, part time, internships and co-op related jobs. The service is free.

Papers

Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?
Written by Ellen Spertus (a professor of CS at Mills College and "Sexiest Geek Alive" title holder) while she was a graduate student at MIT. It is one of the most widely cited papers on the issues related to being a woman in Computer Science.

Tracy Camp has written several articles about the "shrinking pipeline" of women continuing in CS studies.

• Women in Computer Science: Reversing the Trend is a short summary article describing factors influencing the "shrinking pipeline."
• The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline is Camp's paper describing the increase and then long term tend of decline in the percentage of women majoring in CS over the last 20 years. She also has some hypotheses as to the influence of the "School of Engineering effect" on those numbers.