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APPENDIX E-6: Computer Science: Cross-National Snapshots of Entry Degrees and IT Workforce in Selected Countries--J. McGrath Cohoon, Caroline Simard, Juliet Webster, Cecilia Castano, Juliana Salles, Jane Prey, and Jacques Wainer
Pages 93-100

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... 6 Jane Prey, senior research program manager, Microsoft Research Connections, Microsoft Research. 7 Jacques Wainer, associate professor in computer science, the Instituto de Computação da UNICAMP, Brazil.
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... 9 This country-level contextual information is crucial if we wish to avoid confounding gender balance in tertiary computing programs with issues of women's access to higher education. To account for in-country educational conditions, we averaged women's share of degrees for all disciplines in a country and calculated the standard deviation from that average 8 Calculated based on data retrieved from World Bank Country Data.
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... # S tudents Slovenia 3605 Switzerland 4511 Belgium 5054 Netherlands 7998 Iceland 3507 Chile 4168 Slovak Republic 4829 Czech Republic 5584 Norway 4679 Germany 18208 France 16770 Italy 7290 Austria 3449 5470 Portugal 7270 Poland 19757 Canada 8474 Brazil 18226 United Kingdom 23408 Spain 10823 United States 51043 Australia 16762 Hungary 5895 Korea 12406 New Zealand 4846 Denmark 4407 Turkey 5646 Israel 4403 Estonia 3780 Sweden 4480 Finland 4693 Mexico 20912 Greece 4123 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 S tandard Deviation FIGURE E-6-2. Women's Representation Relative to Non-Computing Disciplines SOURCE: OECD Education Database.
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... Gender Composition in the Computing Workforce Varied across Countries Comparative data such as that presented for higher education are less available for the computing workforce. We therefore present information from four selected countries: Brazil, India, Spain, and the United States.
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... , it seems reasonable to estimate Indian women's level of participation in professional level computing occupations at about 20 percent. 10 Calculated based on data retrieved from Instituto Nacional de Estadistica 2010.
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... Country Comparisons of Employed Women SOURCES: Calculated based on data retrieved from European Union Labor Force Survey 2010, the current Population Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009, and Nasscom & Mercer.
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... 2006. "A Matter of Degrees: Female Underrepresentation in Computer Science Programs Cross-Nationally." Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation.
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