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Gender(ed) Studies: Why doesn't Barbie have an IT Degree?
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Gender(ed) Studies: Why doesn't Barbie have an IT degree? Introduction The article in question calls our attention to the ´lack of participation and further progression in tertiary education of women in IT...´. And the intention of the same article is to find the reasons that make young women not choose information technology for their further education. If we wanted to summarize the article, we could say that is a sociological piece of study about gender and standard choices. A paper where is identified a crisis related to women choosing IT to their further education programmes. Still we could add the plan from the author to diminish the problem by introducing a mentoring agenda which was actually preformed by Monash University in Australia. This article, however talking about differences of options between men and women is not solely about gender inequalities. Firstly we could look at what is institutionalized, in other words, what we believe to...
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