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Decoding femininity in computer science in India

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The benefits in school and the job market so far outweigh any potential gender bias that few women are deterred.

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          Communications of the ACM  Volume 58, Issue 5
          May 2015
          80 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2766485
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          • Moshe Y. Vardi
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