links for 2009-08-18

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• Only the Developed World Lacks Women in Computing | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
  "Vivian Lagesen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology presented her study of Malaysia, where the 52% of all CS undergraduate majors are female. Vivian interviewed students, department chairs (mostly female), and a Dean (female). She found that Malaysians can't understand why anyone would think computing is particularly male — if anything, they consider it more female, since it's safe, mostly inside work "like cooking."
  (tags: gender computing cs education women technology)

chris @ August 19, 2009