This technical report describes the participation of women in computing in more than 30 countries, by focussing on participation at undergraduate level. A brief discussion covers how societal and cultural factors may affect women’s participation. Statistics from many different sources are presented for comparison. Generally, participation is low – most countries fall in the 10-40% range with a ...

This paper seeks to provide an input towards developing the proposal for the research project, “Pathways of Women’s Empowerment” to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment where and when it occurs. It primarily attempts to give an overview of the trends in research, thinking and programmes in Pakistan from 1975 onwards in the area of women’s empowerment and bodily integrity in order...

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the public’s contradictory views about public education. At beginning of pandemic, Maria Ferguson explains, they were lauded as heroes for keeping kids connected after school buildings closed. But when schools slower to reopen than many parents wanted, excoriated selfishly protecting their own interests. Much criticism was leveled at unions, which resisted reopen...

Image Based Sexual Abuse (IBSA) denotes the creation, distribution, and/or threat of distribution intimate images another person online without their consent. The present study aims to extend emerging research on perpetration IBSA with development and preliminary validation for moral disengagement in scale, while also examining role dark triad, sadism, sexism a person’s likelihood perpetrate IB...

When presented with negative outcomes, people often engage in counterfactual thinking imagining various ways that events might have been different. This appears to be a spontaneous behavior, with considerable adaptive value. Nevertheless, counterfactual thinking may also engender systematic biases in various judgment tasks, such as allocating blame for a mishap, or deciding on the appropriate c...

Abstract Many people are reluctant to report sexual objectification at work. We tested whether emotions determine how respond In Study 1 ( N = 159) women recalled a time that they had experienced Participants then rated their in this situation and responded. Anger positively shame-based emotion (rejection) negatively predicted taking action against the perpetrator (active response). contrast, s...

In this paper, we discuss the historical and current perspectives on women in computer science and the recent downward trend of women's participation in this field We then present results from a survey that asked respondents their views on why women's participation in the field of computing is decreasing, what we can do to reverse this trend, and what they predict the future holds for women in ...

The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a vertical version of horizontally oriented three Appraisal of Violent Situation scales that elicit women's subjective appraisals of severity, dangerousness, and controllability of violence. Construct validity of the vertical scale eliciting 64 abused women's perceptions of severity of violence experienced was supported by a l...