TY - GEN
T1 - Diversifying the Face of Computing through Re-entry Initiatives for Returning Women
AU - Rahman, Farzana
AU - Billionniere, Elodie
AU - Subhedar, Vaishnavi Prashant
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/3/3
Y1 - 2022/3/3
N2 - Recruitment, retention, and graduation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training are critical needs in our nation [1, 2]. Within STEM, the computing and tech industry, specifically some niches, are expected to grow job opportunities more quickly than others. Emerging Technology (EmTech) concentrations like cybersecurity, data science, mobile development, machine learning, and cloud computing will have thousands of jobs in the next decade which will require a large pool of technical professionals. EmTech can use the largest untapped talent pool of women and returning women to fill the gap in the workforce. Hence, to understand the barriers and challenges faced by returning women to (re-) enter computing and tech fields, a three-day virtual conference, NSF RESET, was organized in March 2021. In this poster, we present the preliminary results on conference attendees' satisfaction level and effectiveness in facilitating resources to (re-)enter EmTech educational and professional pipeline.
AB - Recruitment, retention, and graduation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training are critical needs in our nation [1, 2]. Within STEM, the computing and tech industry, specifically some niches, are expected to grow job opportunities more quickly than others. Emerging Technology (EmTech) concentrations like cybersecurity, data science, mobile development, machine learning, and cloud computing will have thousands of jobs in the next decade which will require a large pool of technical professionals. EmTech can use the largest untapped talent pool of women and returning women to fill the gap in the workforce. Hence, to understand the barriers and challenges faced by returning women to (re-) enter computing and tech fields, a three-day virtual conference, NSF RESET, was organized in March 2021. In this poster, we present the preliminary results on conference attendees' satisfaction level and effectiveness in facilitating resources to (re-)enter EmTech educational and professional pipeline.
KW - computing
KW - diversity
KW - emerging technology
KW - returning women
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U2 - 10.1145/3478432.3499045
DO - 10.1145/3478432.3499045
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85127373452
T3 - SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2
SP - 1145
BT - SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 53rd Annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2022
Y2 - 3 March 2022 through 5 March 2022
ER -