role models to encourage other women to join these typically non-traditional female fields of work and study. This book … provides a collection of recent high-quality empirical studies related to the education and careers of women in engineering …, science and technology disciplines, with cases on innovative approaches to attracting and supporting women in training courses …

women remain underrepresented in this industry"--Provided by publisher. …, market, and culture -- Games and society: can games make a better world? -- Play preferences and the gendering of gaming … women game developers -- Issues career women face -- Reflections for the future -- Final thoughts and concluding comments …

"This book aims to bring the topic of women in IT to the forefront of discussion about what can be done to correct this … field looking to develop a solution to equalize the retention rate of women in these related fields"--Provided by publisher. …Women in IT: background -- A new approach -- The old approach -- Popular theories -- Cultural and social contexts and …

the dynamics of these two phenomena in countries across the world and the varying successes of regional regulations …Historical and methodological approaches to the analysis of international labor migration in a globalizing world …

review of the empirical literature / Sefa Kwami Awaworyi Churchill -- Money of her own and the politics of women … managers / Megan Alessandrini, Romy Winter -- Is M-PESA a model for financial inclusion and women empowerment in Kenya …? / Violet N. Barasa, Charles Lugo -- Economic empowerment of women in Pakistan / Sofia Idris -- The case for group heterogeneity …

1. Women, men and programming / Inger Boivie -- 2. New gender relations in the transforming IT-industry of Malaysia … / Ulf Mellström -- 3. Women in computer science in Afghanistan / Eva Hoffmann -- 4. "For me it doesn't matter where I put my … using virtual pedagogical characters / Agneta Gulz, Magnus Haake -- 8. Absent women / Martha Blomqvist -- 9 …

"This book provides a collection of high-quality empirical studies and personal experiences of women working in male … retaining women in these fields"--Provided by publisher. … -- Women and men in computer science: the role of gaming in their educational goals / Jill Denner, Eloy Ortiz, Linda Werner …