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@Article{Scragg:1998:SBW,
  author =       "Greg Scragg and Jesse Smith",
  title =        "A study of barriers to women in undergraduate computer
                 science.",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "30",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "82--86",
  month =        mar,
  year =         "1998",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/274790.273167",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sat Nov 17 16:56:29 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1990.bib",
  abstract =     "Worldwide, there is a significant discrepancy between
                 the numbers of male and female graduates from computer
                 science programs. SUNY Geneseo offers no exception. The
                 literature cites a number of plausible explanations for
                 the problem, but no definitive answers. We conducted a
                 study to determine why few women complete our own
                 computer science major. Our major finding is that (at
                 least on our campus) the problem is not actually one of
                 retention. Few women---even those in the introductory
                 computer science courses---actually plan to major in
                 computer science to begin with. Although some barriers
                 suggested in the literature do operate within the
                 major, they seem much less significant than the low
                 entry rates. Retention of women once they enter the
                 major is important, but it is secondary to getting
                 women into the major initially. This suggests that the
                 most effective solutions will be those that concentrate
                 not on retention but on recruitment (including outreach
                 to secondary schools).",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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