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Computing The Role That Women Hold In The Technology And Computing Fields, Rachel L F Mccombs

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research was conducted as a thesis project to study what roles women have played in information technology over time, how those roles have changed over time, and what caused those roles to change. It was also to study how personal life experiences may have affected their roles and careers in the technology field. Influential women in IT of the past were studied and compared to determine any common factors between them.