In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she aims to offer a valuable historical perspective on today’s concerns over women’s underrepresentation in the field. Jennifer Miller recommends this book for both readers...

Although women predominate in later life, their diverse experiences of growing older have often been neglected within social gerontology and the sociology of ageing. Instead, the significance of gender and ethnicity and the interrelationship of sexism, racism and ageism, remain under theorised. More recently, some feminists have highlighted the neglect of gender issues and have examined how gen...

Despite the fact that women constitute about half (46.6%) of the United States workforce, the proportion of women in computer science and information technology (CSIT) careers has been declining. From a high of 40% in 1986, it dropped to 29% in 1996, and further declined to about 20% in 2004 according to the Information Technology Association of America (Ramsey and McCorduck, 2005). Although ou...

The UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of a...

aims of the study: endometriosis is a prevalent gynecologic disorder in young women at reproductiveage but the underlying risk factors have not identified yet in iran and other neighboringcountries. persistent exposure to environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals (edcs) in particulardioxins, pahs and polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) with xenoestrogenic potentials have beenhypothesized in the...

BACKGROUND Although, there have been extensive research on the motivations driving patient to undergo cosmetic procedures, there is still a big question mark on the persuasive factors which may lead individuals to undergo cosmetic surgery. The present study evaluated various factors affecting patients undergoing cosmetic surgery in Bushehr, Southern Iran. METHODS From 24th March 2011 to 24th...

introduction: pelvic organ prolapse is a common condition that occurs in parous women and affects the quality of life of women. the present study aimed to evaluate the incidence of recurrent prolapse. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study evaluated 365 women attending two public centers of ilam, west of iran. sampling was done by the simple random sampling method. all women particip...

Electronic media and new technology have changed the way we communicate and collect information, and this is the case especially if we look at the evolution of the Internet. The phenomenon of new technology is not unexpected and a few decades ago Marshall McLuhan was mentioning the importance the electronic media, and also the global village, would have for the individual and for the structures...

In the United States, coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in both women and men. Although advances in medical diagnosis and treatment of CHD have contributed significantly to the recent decline in CHD mortality, preventive measures--both lifestyle changes and improvements in the medical management of coronary risk factors--have been estimated to account for the majority o...

In the April 1967 issue of Cosmopolitanmagazine, sandwiched between such conventional women’s magazine fare as “ e Bachelor Girls of Japan” and “A Dog Speaks: Why a Girl Should Own a Pooch,” appeared a curious little essay entitled simply “ e Computer Girls.” e “computer girls,” as the article explained, were the female “computer programmers” who taught the dazzling new “miracle machines” calle...