"Women into Computing"--Cover.
"Selection of papers presented at the 6th International Conference of Women into Computing at the University of Greenwich, London, in July 2005"--P. [4] of cover.

Conference note: Selected papers.

Includes bibliographical references.

Invited papers. 1. Why are women still so few in IT?: understanding the persistent under-representation of women in the IT professions / Juliet Webster
2. Becoming and belonging: gendered processes in engineering / Wendy Faulkner
3. Bridging the boardoom 'divide': a personal view / Lesley Ottery
4. Intelligent ambience between heaven and hell: a salvation? / Cecile K.M. Crutzen.
Gender politics. 5. An initial investigation of students' self-construction of pedagogical agents / Katherine R.B. Greysen
6. Some ideas on constitutive ethics for information and communication technologies / Frances Grundy
7. Gender mainstreaming in FP6: experiences from an IST project / Rosa Michaelson
8. Understandings of gender and competence in ICT / Johanna Sefyrin
9. Implementation of large scale software applications: possibilities for end-use participation / Linda Stepulevage and Miriam Mukasa
10. 'Social' robots and 'emotional' software agents: gendering processes and de-gendering strategies for 'technologies in the making' / Jutta Weber and Corinna Bath
11. New Europe, new attitudes?: some initial findings on women in computing in the CZech Republic / Eva Turner.
Communications: exploiting technology. 12. A tool but not a medium: practical use of the Internet in the women's movement / Tanja Carstensen and Gabriele Winker
13. Blogging for life: the role of the cyberconduit in everyday narratives, cyberfeminism and global social change / Tess Pierce
14. 'I know that's not the topic we're on, but it is all linked isn't it?': gender and interaction in email list cooperation / Margit Pohl and Greg Michaelson
15. Internet research from a gender perspective: searching for differentiated use patterns / Gabriele Winker.
Education: context and content. 16. Gender differentials in the adoption and use of information and communications technologies by lecturers in Nigerian universities / Rosemary O. Agbonlahor
17. Invitation to dialogue: feminist research meets computer science / Christina Björkman
18. Women's pleasure in computing / Hilde Corneliussen
19. Women's training revisited: developing new learning pathways for women IT technicians using a holistic approach / Debbie Ellen and Clem Herman
20. Learning in groups: gender impacts in e-learning / Sigrid Schmitz and Ruth MeC7mer.
Employment. 21. 'You don't have to be male to work here, but it helps!': gender and the IT labour market / Alison Adam, and others
22. Networking and career advancement strategies for women: a study of the effects of networking and mentoring on ICT careers for women / Frances S. Grodzinsky and Andra Gumbus
23. The potential of adaptive collaborative work: a proposal for a new working style for Japanese women / Mayumi Hori and Masakazu Ohashi.