The number of women under criminal justice supervision in the United States reached over one million in 2001. In response, contemporary corrections has begun to consider the best way to effectively respond to women offenders. Female offenders are now a significant proportion of all offenders: they comprise 17 percent of the total number of offenders under correctional supervision, or one in eve...

“Women are just not interested” is a convenient justification for the absence of women in computer science. This paper questions this simplification; it admits that women have not shown considerable interest toward computer science by referring to the relevant statistics and common observations by experts in the field. Second, it analyses several diverse factors that may have led to this lack o...

nowadays there are a few postgraduate orthopedic surgeons who wish to enter a spinal fellowship program. the purpose of this study is to determine the current trainees’ perceptions of competency in the spine fellowship education in mashhad university of medical sciences and evaluating their suggestion to overcome the problem. in this cross sectional study, a self-made questionnaire was develope...

Since 1994, the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) has offered the Distributed Research Experience for Undergraduates (DREU) program to increase gender diversity in the computing research community. DREU gives undergraduate women the experience of conducting summer research with a professor of computer science or computer engineering (CSE). In 2006, CRA-W joined with...

In this study we will focus on the impact of ICT ownership on the gender divide and whether is ICT really empowering women in Egypt. Furthermore, we will explore the effect of ICT on women’s lives in relation to other factors like education and income. Finally, recommendations are given to the policy maker in order to increase ICT’s role in empowering women in Egypt and enhance the gender equal...

AMITA GOYAL Over the course of history, women have slowly begun to hold influential roles in the computing industry, Although progress has been made, the precipitous journey is not yet complete. This paper presents a historical analysis of the entrance and role of women in the computing industry, a discussion on the existence and impact of the glass ceiling, and a detailed and informative colle...

Introduction The domain of Informatics is a world of actors in which ICT-representations are designed and used, presented and interpreted. ICT-(re)presentations are present in this world not only in the form of hardware or software but also as methods and theories used for designing and making ICT-products, are representations within this world, too. The Informatics discipline (Computer Science...