Articles of Interest | Articles about CRA-W


  • February 2005
    Women in Tech: A Wired News Collection
    Women keep breaking through the silicon ceiling, but haven't shattered it yet. Wired News looks at the people leading the way:

  • July 2000
    A committee convened by the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) has recently released a report entitled Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minority Graduate Students in Computer Science (PDF format). The report offers 25 practical suggestions for graduate departments to consider. These suggestions cover specific recruitment tactics, means to facilitate early success in graduate school, retention methods, and organizational issues such as best ways of providing financial support. The committee was co-chaired by Andrew Bernat (University of Texas at El Paso) and William Aspray (Computing Research Association). The study was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and PACI, with staff support from CRA.

  • July 19, 2000
    The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News Number 87:
    Both a congressionally-established commission and an AIP report have recently contributed to the dialogue on participation of women and other underrepresented groups in science.

  • April 2000
    Information Technology Workforce: Dear Colleague Letter, R. Bajcsy
    Dear Colleague letter from Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy, National Science Foundation, announcing a new initiative focusing on the Underrepresentation of Women and Minorities in the IT Workforce.
  • November 22, 1999
    More Rewards Could Bolster Retention of Women Scientists
    Author: Nadia S. Halim
    REWARDING WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Female candidates deal with complications in the nomination and award processes, but many are optimistic about the future.

  • July 1, 1999
    Sense and Sensibility
    While their numbers are still small—the Information Technology Association of America reports that women hold just 25 percent of all professional IT positions—they bring invaluable skills to IT organizations. Relationship management, flexibility and diplomacy are just a few of the talents CIOs need to master in today's tumultuous business climate. And as some IT organizations are learning to their benefit, many women executives excel in these areas.

  • May 1999
    FCRC Event in Atlanta is a Forum for Females in Computer Science
    ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- The CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) held a very successful "Workshop on Research Careers for Women in Computer Science and Engineering" in conjunction with the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Federated Computing Research Conference April 30 - May 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. The goal of the workshop was to provide computer science undergraduate and graduate students, professors, and researchers from industry and the national laboratories--especially females--an opportunity to share information critical for achieving success in computer science.

  • May 5, 1999
    S&E DEGREES TO WOMEN, MINORITIES ON THE RISE, MATH ACHIEVEMENT "GENDER GAP " IS GONE
    The number and proportion of women and minorities enrolled and earning undergraduate and graduate science and engineering [S&E] degrees continues to increase, while the number of white men doing so is decreasing, according to a National Science Foundation [NSF] report released today to Congress.

  • April 15, 1999
    NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD HONORS MAXINE FRANK SINGER WITH VANNEVAR BUSH AWARD
    The National Science Board (NSB) has named Maxine Frank Singer, Ph.D., president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. to receive the 1999 Vannevar Bush Award for lifetime contributions to science and engineering.

  • February 1999
    Bug Zapper
    Computer Scientist Nancy Leveson aims to keep the skies friendly with glitch -free software

  • December 23, 1998 PST
    It Ain't Rocket Science
    by Polly Sprenger
    Thirty-four years after the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, women scientists say the old-boys' clubs of the science and technology fields still won't give them equal treatment.

  • November 9, 1998
    Computer Gender Gap Prompts Major Study by ACM
    The ACM's Committee on Women Will Use NSF Grant to Study Sharp Decrease in Women Earning Computer Science Degrees
    NEW YORK, November 9, 1998. The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) announced today that it would take steps to analyze and help reverse a disturbing gender gap problem. Recent studies by groups such as the American Association of University Women show a dramatic drop in the ratio of women to men involved in computing from high school to graduate school.

  • October 1997
    "The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline," by Tracy Camp
    Many of us in computer science are aware of the pipeline shrinkage problem; the pipeline represents the ratio of women involved in computer science from high school to graduate school. In this article, we discuss the incredible shrinking pipeline. In addition to the pipeline shrinking from high school to graduate school, the pipeline also shrinks at the bachelor's level. Furthermore, while the percentage of bachelor's degrees awarded in CS to women decreased almost every year over the last decade, the corresponding percentages of other science and engineering disciplines increased. Since the number of women at the bachelor's level affects the number of women at levels higher in the pipeline and in the job market, these facts are of great concern. In this article, we look at the harsh facts concerning the percentage of degrees awarded in CS to women since 1980 and we speculate on what the future holds. Lastly, we request the community to respond to the issues presented in this article.





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