• DocumentCode
    1121039
  • Title

    The Print of the Hand

  • Author

    Grier, David Alan

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Int. Sci. & Technol. Policy, George Washington Univ., DC
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    8
  • Lastpage
    10
  • Abstract
    Women have found that computer technology offers new opportunities, new positions and new roles. At the same time, computer technology has shown how firmly our ideas about women are carved into the foundations of our society. The industry has always needed more technical workers than it could find among the available group of men. In turning to women, it has had to make adjustments, though it has usually ceded to these adjustments on technical grounds
  • Keywords
    DP industry; gender issues; personnel; computer technology; female computing staff; gender issues; programming staffs; software development; software firms; technical workers; Data structures; Education; Marketing and sales; Operating systems; Programming profession; Speech; computers and society; computing technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2006.282
  • Filename
    1673317
    • Link To Document
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