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Direct linkJohnson, Angela; Ong, Maria; Ko, Lily T.; Smith, Janet; Hodari, Apriel – Physics Teacher, 2017
Women of color are deeply underrepresented in physics. Between 2002 and 2012, only 1% of graduating physics majors were Black women and another 1% were Latinas; only 61 American Indian women total completed degrees in physics in those years (out of 48,000 physics majors). This isolation can lead to additional obstacles that women of color majoring…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Plane, Jandelyn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explores the representation of women in computer science at the tertiary level through data collected about undergraduate computer science education at Kabul University in Afghanistan. Previous studies have theorized reasons for underrepresentation of women in computer science, and while many of these reasons are indeed present in…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Females, Focus Groups, Disproportionate Representation
