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Gender Bias: The East-West Paradox

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Women into Computing

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A recent feature article in The Computer Bulletin claimed that Singapore, despite the skills shortage in computing, has no problem in attracting women into this field — in fact a higher percentage of women than men are said to be taking up IT courses.

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  1. Lim Gek Kheng, “WIT: The Singaporean way”, Computer Bulletin,Vol 2, part 1, Feb 1990.

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  2. WiC publicity handout,1989.

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Uden, L. (1991). Gender Bias: The East-West Paradox. In: Lovegrove, G., Segal, B. (eds) Women into Computing. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3875-4_57

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