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An expanding pipeline: gender in mauritius

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Joel C. Adams,

Vimala Bauer,

Shakuntala BaichooAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '03: Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/611892.611932

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The gender imbalance in computer science in the U.S. and other countries has attracted much attention. This paper presents - for comparison - the computing-related gender ratios in Mauritius, a developing country in the Indian Ocean. These ratios suggest that far from being a universal phenomenon, the gender imbalance in the U.S. is a cultural problem.

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