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Increasing Participation of Females and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing
April 2009 (vol. 42 no. 4)
pp. 110-113
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Peggy Doerschuk, Jiangjiang Liu, Judith Mann, "Increasing Participation of Females and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing," Computer, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 110-113, April, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MC.2009.122,
author = {Peggy Doerschuk and Jiangjiang Liu and Judith Mann},
title = {Increasing Participation of Females and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing},
journal ={Computer},
volume = {42},
number = {4},
issn = {0018-9162},
year = {2009},
pages = {110-113},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2009.122},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Peggy Doerschuk, Lamar University
Jiangjiang Liu, Lamar University
Judith Mann, Lamar University
Retaining and recruiting women and underrepresented minorities in computing is an important issue for computing educators.

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Index Terms:
broadening participation in computing, computers and society
Citation:
Peggy Doerschuk, Jiangjiang Liu, Judith Mann, "Increasing Participation of Females and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing," Computer, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 110-113, April 2009, doi:10.1109/MC.2009.122
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