Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"Many women entering Carnegie Mellon computer science had less prior computing experience than their male peers, yet could succeed academically in the program."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title GEEK MYTHOLOGY AND ATTRACTING UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN TO COMPUTER SCIENCE

Source authors Jane Margolis; Allan Fisher

Source year 1997

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Margolis found an apprenticeship-like pattern in which fathers often worked through BASIC and computer problems with sons while daughters rarely received equivalent attention."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Coders

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"In Margolis’s research, boys were more than twice as likely as girls to have been given a computer by their parents, and family computers were often placed in sons’ rooms."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Coders

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher documented a substantial gender gap in pre-college computer exposure among Carnegie Mellon computer-science students."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Unlocking the Clubhouse

Source authors Jane Margolis; Allan Fisher

Source year 2001

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"The Commodore 64 allowed users to program complex sounds and music through BASIC or assembly language."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide

Source authors Commodore Business Machines, Inc.

Source year 1982

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Book / Offline paper

"The Commodore 64 gave home programmers direct access to programmable graphics, sprites, animation, sound, and music."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide

Source authors Commodore Business Machines, Inc.

Source year 1982

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"NPR connected the 1984 decline in women’s computer-science participation with the rise of home computers and unequal access to those machines."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title When Women Stopped Coding

Source authors Steve Henn / NPR

Source year 2014

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"The spread of personal computers created a generation of students who could arrive at university with substantial programming experience acquired at home."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Coders

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Clive Thompson identifies the 1983–84 academic year, when women reached 37.1% of computer science bachelor’s degrees, as the point after which their share began falling."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Coders

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Women earned 28.0% of U.S. physical-science bachelor’s degrees in 1984–85."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mass Effect

Source title Percentage of bachelor’s degrees earned by women and change in the percentage earned by women from 1970–71 to 2001–02, by field of study: 1970–71, 1984–85, and 2001–02

Source authors National Center for Education Statistics

Source year 2003

Confidence high

Importance mid