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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"women in technology"”.
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Women in Technology: College Experiences that are Correlated with Long-Term Career Success
Women are underrepresented in technology careers because they pursue technology degrees less frequently and leave technology careers at greater numbers than do men. By analyzing a representative dataset of college graduates with degrees in computer science, computer engineering, and management …
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Women in Technology: Why are Undergraduate Women Underrepresented in the field of Information Technology
Technology in modern society is booming. Products encompassing everything from recreational applications to vocational enterprise/executive software are becoming more integrative and omnipresent in their use. In order to meet increasing demand, the technology workforce has also increased its pace, …
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Understanding The Lived Experiences of Being a Woman Leader in a Technology Organization
… the experiences of female senior managers in technology organizations and understand how they feel about themselves, their roles and their technology organizations. The study highlights the issues faced by women working in a gendered role, a masculine industry and a non-western, strong …
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Understanding Brigham Young University's Technology Teacher Education Program's Sucess in Attracting and Retaining Female Students
… to understand why Brigham Young University Technology Teacher Education program has attracted and retained a high number of females. This was done through a self-created survey composed of four forced responses, distributed among the Winter 2006 semester students. Likert-scale questions were …
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Exploring factors affecting the success of women entrepreneurship in Namibia: The case of women entrepreneurs in Windhoek
Over the past decades, the number of women venturing into business has exponentially grown, especially developing economies such as Namibia. The challenges such female entrepreneurs face has also equally been rising over the years. The purpose of the study was to explore factors affecting the …
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Women & early-stage entrepreneurship : examining the impact of the venture funding crisis on male and female-led technology start-ups
Women in technology have always been a minority and the number of women who are founders of venture backed start-ups is even lower. This research empirically investigates venture capital funding received by entrepreneurs along the twin dimensions of gender and geography. The ideal experiment would …
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High school students’ perception of technology and its influence on their intent to select a technology college major: A study in gender differences
<p>The purpose of this research was to investigate technology perceptions of high school students and analyze the results by gender. The objective was to examine whether high school boys and girls differ in their technology perceptions and whether that difference is related to their intent to …
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Explaining Gendered Participation in Computer Science Education
… fields, computer science (CS) is the only one in which the percentage of women undergraduates has decreased since the 1980s; in the US and Canada, this percentage has hovered around 15%. Since the 1990s, a great deal of effort and resources have been put toward trying to improve the …
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Impact of First-Robotics FIRST Tech Challenge participation on female college major selection
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The Effect of Professional Development Training for Secondary Mathematics Teachers Concerning Nontraditional Employment Roles for Females
This quasi-experimental study, utilizing quantitative and qualitative descriptive methods, examined the sex-egalitarian attitudes of secondary mathematics teachers from the Ft. Worth Independent School District. A video tape, Women in the Workplace, was used as a training intervention to test the …
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Women in stem : a qualitative study on women's experiences
… which females are exposed to every day in their studying in the STEM field. Women have been found to be majorly underrepresented in the STEM field, both amongst students as well as in the work force (Blickenstaff, 2014). This has created a gender gap where males are in the majority. …