This technical report describes the participation of women in computing in more than 30 countries, by focussing on participation at undergraduate level. A brief discussion covers how societal and cultural factors may affect women’s participation. Statistics from many different sources are presented for comparison. Generally, participation is low – most countries fall in the 10-40% range with a ...

This paper seeks to provide an input towards developing the proposal for the research project, “Pathways of Women’s Empowerment” to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment where and when it occurs. It primarily attempts to give an overview of the trends in research, thinking and programmes in Pakistan from 1975 onwards in the area of women’s empowerment and bodily integrity in order...

In this paper, we discuss the historical and current perspectives on women in computer science and the recent downward trend of women's participation in this field We then present results from a survey that asked respondents their views on why women's participation in the field of computing is decreasing, what we can do to reverse this trend, and what they predict the future holds for women in ...

The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a vertical version of horizontally oriented three Appraisal of Violent Situation scales that elicit women's subjective appraisals of severity, dangerousness, and controllability of violence. Construct validity of the vertical scale eliciting 64 abused women's perceptions of severity of violence experienced was supported by a l...

هدف این پژوهش مقایسه اثربخشی آموزش غنی­سازی زندگی زناشویی براساس دو رویکرد تئوری انتخاب و گاتمن بر گذشت زنان در است. روش نیمه‌تجربی با طرح پیش­آزمون ـ پس­آزمون گروه کنترل بود. جامعه شامل متأهل دارای مشکلات مراجعه‌کننده به مرکز مشاوره تسنیم شهرستان شوش سال 98 بودند که از میان آن‌ها 60 نفر نمونه­گیری دسترس صورت تصادفی سه مساوی جای گرفتند. اول 9 جلسه دقیقه­ای غنی‌سازی دوم 8 نظریه را دیدند. نیز پرس...

Despite greater knowledge about gender (in)equality issues, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are still largely portrayed in stereotypical ways in the media. We sought to uncover what both academic research and mainstream US and UK media communicate relative to the topic of women in STEM, in general, and women in computing, in particular. The notion of image cente...