Research Guides: Voices In STEM: WOMEN, BIPOC, LGBTQ+: Women in Comput/Data Sci

Women in Computer & Data Science

Headstrong: 52 women who changed science-- and the world by Rachel Swaby
Call Number: Q130 .S93 2015

ISBN: 9780553446791

Publication Date: 2015-04-07

Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's vibrant profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known. This fascinating tour reveals 52 women at their best--while encouraging and inspiring a new generation of girls to put on their lab coats.
Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs; Board on Higher Education and Workforce; Committee on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech; Rebekah Hutton (Editor); Valerie Taylor (Editor); Evelynn Hammonds (Editor); Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Call Number: Available through Summit

ISBN: 9780309268974

Publication Date: 2022-04-11

This report identifies gaps in existing research that obscure the nature of challenges faced by women of color in tech, addresses systemic issues that negatively affect outcomes for women of color in tech, and provides guidance for transforming existing systems and implementing evidence-based policies and practices to increase the success of women of color in tech.
IT Girls: pioneer women in computing by John S. Croucher
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ISBN: 9781398112292

Publication Date: 2023-12-12

Outlines the lives and work of talented women from different eras and countries who played a vital role in the development of computers. Although at times their participation has gone unrecognized, their scholarly inventiveness and discoveries have provided a rich tapestry to add to the evolution of computer science in the world.
Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio; Lauren F. Klein
Call Number: Available through Summit

ISBN: 9780262044004

Publication Date: 2020-03-17

Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask- Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind?
Becoming Leaders: a practical handbook for women in engineering, science, and technology by F. Mary Williams; Carolyn J. Emerson
Call Number: Available through Summit

ISBN: 9780784415238

Publication Date: 2019-08-30

This is intended for people interested in the advancement of their own careers or in the development of human resources in their organization. Information is given in a reader-friendly format with easy-to-find bulleted lists supported by current research in sociology, education, and psychology.
Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World by Catherine Whitlock; Rohdri Evans
Call Number: Available through Summit

ISBN: 9781635766103

Publication Date: 2019-06-11

Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events.

Recoding Gender: women's changing participation in computing by Janet Abbate
Call Number: Available through Summit

ISBN: 1283953099

Publication Date: 2012-01-01

Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century.
(Ebook) Gender Codes: why women are leaving computing by Thomas J. Misa (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470619926

Publication Date: 2010-08-20

The computing profession faces a serious gender crisis. Today, fewer women enter computing than anytime in the past 25 years. This book provides an unprecedented look at the history of women and men in computing, detailing how the computing profession emerged and matured, and how the field became male coded.

Women's sense of belonging in computer science education: The need for a collective response
The gender imbalance in Computing education continues to be concerning, with women hugely underrepresented in the field. Prior research on improving gender equality in the discipline discusses the need to improve women’s sense of belonging. However, this has seldom included women’s understanding of what a sense of belonging is for them—nor have solutions for fostering belonging been co-created with women. In this paper, we report on the findings of four innovative focus groups with thirteen women, students and staff, in a university Computer Science department—uncovering their experiences of belonging and their proposed solutions to improving it.

Association for Women in Computing
The purpose of AWC is to provide opportunities for professional growth through networking and through programs on technical and career-oriented topics. AWC encourages high standards of competence and promotes a professional attitude among its members.
Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science
The Caucus for Women in Statistics was formed in 1970 to focus on specific problems associated with the participation of women in statistically oriented professions. The Caucus is an independent association with membership open to all women and men who support its purposes and objectives.
ASA Committee on Women in Statistics (COWIS)
We to make the members of ASA more aware of the common professional interests and problems of women members of ASA; to promote the status of women who are already in the statistics profession; to encourage women to enter the field of statistics; to establish contact and share ideas with other professional groups having similar goals; to jointly coordinate the management of the Gertrude Cox Scholarship with the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

Voices In STEM: WOMEN, BIPOC, LGBTQ+

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