Research - woman on computation and technology

Leah Buechley (2006) "A Constuction Kit for Electronic Textiles"
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Computer science, electrical engineering, and related fields are everwhelmingly populated with males.
J. Margolis and A.Fisher.(3001). Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. MIT Press. Boston, MA, USA.
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The enrollment in the endergraduate computer science program at our university was 8% women for 2005 and the enrollment in the underfraduate electrical engineering program was even worse, at 7% women.
University of Colorado Ofiice of Planning, Budget and Analysis. Percent female enrolled by college, fall 2005. Available: http://www.colorado.edu/pba/div/FemalebyCol.htm

Childhood is one of the most creative periods of our lives. We must make sure that children's creativity is nurtured and developed, providing children with opportunities to exercise, refine, and extend their creative abilities. That will require new approaches to education and learning - and new types of technologies to support those new spproaches. The ulimate foal is a society of creative individuals who are constantly inventing new possibilities for themselves and their communities.
Mitchel Resnick, Computer as Painbrush: Technology, Play, and the Creative Society. In Singer, D. et al. (eds.), Play = Learning. Oxford University Press, 2006
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/playlearn-handout.pdf

Women, Gender, and Technology
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Gender-Technology-Mary-Frank/dp/0252073363/ref=pd_sim_b_1_img/103-0384124-2691041



Leah Buechley, et al. Toward a Curriculum for Electronic Textiles in the High School Classroom.(2007)
It is clear from the pattern of underfraduate enrollents in engineering and computing disciplines that the population of students gravitating toward these fields is overshelmingly male.
National Science Foundation. Statistics, Science and Engineering Degrees 1966-2001.
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf04311/sectb.htm