What is it about?
Often Black women are lumped into the categories of women or people of color not acknowledging that the motivations to enter computing and/or experiences might be different. This paper demonstrated some instances where Black women's experience are unique and thus makes a call for more intersectional work.
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Why is it important?
This work is important because it demonstrates to the community that we need to dig deeper with matters of diversity in computing.
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This page is a summary of: The Intersection of Being Black and Being a Woman, ACM Transactions on Computing Education, May 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3377426.
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