What is it about?
Women and other groups are significantly underrepresented in computing. This poster presents initial results of a survey of 288 undergraduate students to ascertain preferences for computing domains. The poster provides some evidence that computing domains with aspects of "doing good" appeal to underrepresented groups, including women.
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Why is it important?
Survey participants were asked to choose the top three applications they would prefer to develop out of a list of 20. Two of the top five choice of application area for women were related to computing for social good whereas none of the top choices for men were. A comparison of the topics between males and females shows that females preferred topics with positive social impact significantly more than males (p = 0. 00000030).
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This is an initial work. We are in the process of refining the survey and hope to distribute to a wider audience.
Heidi Ellis
Western New England University
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This page is a summary of: The Power of Open Source for Social Good to Increase Diversity in Computing, March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3408877.3439628.
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