Encouraging gender diversity in computing by supporting women’s participation in conferences
Encouraging gender diversity in computing by supporting women’s participation in conferences
Since the first edition of the womENcourage conference, one of the authors has encouraged female students and staff in our department to participate, consistently being able to send a delegation of five or more participants thanks to the support of academics. This paper presents the processes that have supported a strong presence every year, and also offers a reflection of the benefits of such participation.
Women in computing, Action Research, conference participation impact
Association for Computing Machinery
Wilde, Adriana
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Rastic-Dulborough, Olja
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3 June 2017
Wilde, Adriana
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Rastic-Dulborough, Olja
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Wilde, Adriana and Rastic-Dulborough, Olja
(2017)
Encouraging gender diversity in computing by supporting women’s participation in conferences.
In Proceedings of the 4th ACM WomENcourage Conference: A Celebration Of Women in Computing.
Association for Computing Machinery.
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Abstract
Since the first edition of the womENcourage conference, one of the authors has encouraged female students and staff in our department to participate, consistently being able to send a delegation of five or more participants thanks to the support of academics. This paper presents the processes that have supported a strong presence every year, and also offers a reflection of the benefits of such participation.
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Accepted/In Press date: 3 June 2017
Published date: 3 June 2017
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ACM WomENcourage : Celebration of Women in Computing, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 2017-09-06 - 2017-09-08
Keywords:
Women in computing, Action Research, conference participation impact
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 412039
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/412039
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Adriana Wilde
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Olja Rastic-Dulborough
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