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Gender and computers : understanding the digital divide

Author: Joel Cooper; Kimberlee D Weaver
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The book is intended to appeal to students and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, education, human factors, and computer science interested in gender differences in general, and in human computer interaction, in particular. The authors' goal is to stimulate social scientists and educators to further research this topic to generate solutions to the problem."--BOOK JACKET.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joel Cooper; Kimberlee D Weaver
ISBN: 0805844260 9780805844269 0805844279 9780805844276
OCLC Number: 51652972
Description: xi, 168 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introducing the problem --
Computer anxiety: a matter of gender --
The social context of computing --
Expectancies and the computer --
A threat in the air --
Working toward solutions --
Solutions: single-sex schools and classrooms?
Responsibility: Joel Cooper, Kimberlee D. Weaver.
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"The book is intended to appeal to students and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, education, human factors, and computer science interested in gender differences in general, and in human computer interaction, in particular. The authors' goal is to stimulate social scientists and educators to further research this topic to generate solutions to the problem."--BOOK JACKET.

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