Increasing women's participation in computing at Harvey Mudd College

Alvarado, Christine; Dodds, Zachary; Libeskind-Hadas, Ran

doi:10.1145/2381083.2381100

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“…Components include curricular reform, community building, student-faculty research, recruitment, holistic candidate review, and/or pre-orientation. At Harvey Mudd, the number of women computer science graduates quadrupled in six years (Alvarado, Dodds, and Libeskind-Hadas 2012).…”

Section: Revise How We Present Economics To Undergraduatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem

Bayer

Rouse

2016

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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T he economics profession includes disproportionately few women and members of historically underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups, relative both to the overall population and to other academic disciplines. In the United States, of 500 doctorate degrees awarded in economics to US citizens and permanent residents in 2014, only 42 were awarded to African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans and 157 to women (although this double-counts the 11 minority women who earned economics doctorates in 2014). This underrepresentation within the field of economics is present at the undergraduate level, continues into the ranks of the academy, and is barely improving over time. It likely hampers the discipline, constraining the range of issues addressed and limiting our collective ability to understand familiar issues from new and innovative perspectives.In this paper, we first present data on the numbers of women and underrepresented minority groups in the profession. We then offer an overview of current research on the reasons for the underrepresentation, highlighting evidence that may be less familiar to economists. We argue that implicit attitudes and institutional practices may be contributing to the underrepresentation of women and minorities at all stages of the pipeline, calling for new types of research and initiatives to

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Section: Revise How We Present Economics To Undergraduatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem

Bayer

Rouse

2016

Journal of Economic Perspectives

297

157

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“…Further, students' perception that a course is meant to weed students out shapes their performance in said course (Suresh 2006); therefore, it seems likely that a weed-out culture might also impact students' sense of belonging in their chosen field. To be sure, not all introductory computing courses are designed to weed-out students; the computing field is making significant efforts to encourage participation from groups historically underrepresented in computing (e.g., women, URM students, and those lacking prior computing experience), which has included efforts to make introductory courses more inclusive (Alvarado et al 2012).…”

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Sense of Belonging in Computing: The Role of Introductory Courses for Women and Underrepresented Minority Students

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Abstract:This study examines an aspect of gender and racial/ethnic gaps in undergraduate computing by focusing on sense of belonging among women and underrepresented minority (URM) introductory computing students. We examine change in sense of belonging during the introductory course as well as the predictors of belonging, with attention to conditional effects by gender and URM status. Results show that sense of belonging outcomes are a product of both incoming student characteristics and college environments and experiences, highlighting the important role the computing faculty play in fostering belonging. These and other findings are discussed, focusing on sense of belonging among women, URM students, and URM women.

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“…One of the strongest efforts has been on behalf of gender diversity, and some institutions have seen dramatic improvement in female student representation. Harvey Mudd College, for example, now has a female student population of approximately 40% [1]. A similar program at Carnegie Mellon University saw increases in female computer science representation rise from 8% in 1995 to 42% in 2000 [8].…”

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“…A similar program at Carnegie Mellon University saw increases in female computer science representation rise from 8% in 1995 to 42% in 2000 [8]. Programs and courses that demonstrate how computing is relevant and useful in applications have shown particular promise with female students [1]. One of the most prominent examples of this is Georgia Tech's Media Computation program [19].…”

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Diversity in the game industry

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McGill

Decker

2013

Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM SIGITE Conference on Information Technology Education

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Over the last decade, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has considered the lack of diversity in the game industry workforce a quality of life issue. Using the results of our recent study on demographics of undergraduate students in game degree programs, we compare our data against data reported in the 2005 IGDA Quality of Life survey. The most significant result of this study is that gender diversity in the current group of undergraduate students studying games is statistically the same as that reported within the industry seven years ago, with an approximate 8 to 1 ratio of males to females. The number of black and Asian students was higher than in the industry survey, and the number of Hispanic and other ethnic and racial groups was only slightly lower. Our data shows that there is a greater diversity in sexual orientation and of reported disabilities than in the industry survey results. We describe effective initiatives for recruiting and retaining women in related fields and suggest that similar efforts might address the imbalance in the game industry.

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Increasing women's participation in computing at Harvey Mudd College

Cited by 116 publications

References 20 publications

Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem

Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem

Sense of Belonging in Computing: The Role of Introductory Courses for Women and Underrepresented Minority Students

Diversity in the game industry

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