3 papers
cs.SE2025
Dynamics of Gender Bias in Software Engineering
Thomas J. Misa
The field of software engineering is embedded in both engineering and computer science, and may embody gender biases endemic to both. This paper surveys software engineering's orig…
cs.CY2024
Women's Participation in Computing: Evolving Research Methods
Thomas J. Misa
A 2022 keynote for the ACM History Committee on "Why SIG History Matters: New Data on Gender Bias in ACM's Founding SIGs 1970-2000" presented new data describing women's participat…
cs.CY2024
Dynamics of Gender Bias within Computer Science
Thomas J. Misa
A new dataset (N = 7,456) analyzes women's research authorship in the Association for Computing Machinery's founding 13 Special Interest Groups or SIGs, a proxy for computer scienc…