Investigating the effects of women-in-CS initiatives

Authors:
Elizabeth Patitsas
Affiliations:
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the ninth annual international ACM conference on International computing education research
Year:
2013

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Abstract

There is a widespread desire to improve the numbers of women in CS, and as a result, a large number of well-intentioned initiatives targeting the issue. However, explicit interventions -- interventions which call attention to a minority being a minority -- can backfire, and actually harm attempts to improve diversity. In my work; I plan to study what unintentional, negative effects women-in-CS initiatives can have; and to give suggestions for mitigating them. I am in an early stage of my PhD, having had my topic approved by my committee and working toward implementing empirical studies.