Paper Info
Title
Best Practices in Academia to Remedy Gender Bias in Tech.
Abstract
The New York Times published an op-ed by Anita Hill [3] suggesting that women in tech consider class action to remedy the gender bias that is increasingly being reported in the mass-media. This panel raises the question "what are we doing in undergraduate programs to reduce the 'Mad Men', 'Brogrammer' culture she describes that is increasingly being reported in the popular press. Part of our mission as educators is to develop professional behavior so that our students entering the workforce not only understand what it means to act professionally, but understand that it is their responsibility to actively push back on the existing bias within the tech culture. As moderator Ursula Wolz brings a depth of insight from 40 years of industrial and academic experience, including a National Science Foundation project to broaden participation in computing [5]. She does not believe this problem can be solved through quantitative data collection on who does well in computer science, but that SIGCSE needs to begin to collect good stories (ala Sally Fincher [2]) on what constitute best practices to support diversity. The panelists present a range of perspectives that have the potential to establish new cultural norms in the single most influential industry in our economy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3159450.3159618
SIGCSE '18: The 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Baltimore Maryland USA February, 2018
Field
DocType
ISBN
Moderation,Data collection,Best practice,Workforce,Public relations,Computer science,Norm (social),Knowledge management,Gender bias,Class action
Conference
978-1-4503-5103-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ursula Wolz115536.57
Lina Battestilli2394.41
Bruce Maxwell310.37
Susan H. Rodger423553.64
Michelle Trim511.04