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National Center for Women & Information Technology, a nonprofit that increases the number of women in technology and computing. [142] Portland Women in Technology (PDXWIT), a Portland-based and BIPOC-led nonprofit that aims to advance inclusion in the technology industry; Systers, a moderated listserv dedicated to mentoring women in the Systers ...
According to PISA 2015 results, 4.8% of boys and 0.4% of girls expect an ICT career. [40]Studies suggest that many factors contribute to the attitudes towards the achievement of young men in mathematics and science, including encouragement from parents, interactions with mathematics and science teachers, curriculum content, hands-on laboratory experiences, high school achievement in ...
The literature regarding information culture focuses on the relationship between individuals and information in their work. Curry and Moore [1] are most frequently cited in the information culture literature, and there is consensus of that values accorded to information, and attitudes towards it are indicators of information culture (McMillan et al., 2012; Curry and Moore, 2003; Furness, 2010 ...
Starting the ’70s, with divorce on the rise, social psychologists got into the mix. Recognizing the apparently opaque character of marital happiness but optimistic about science’s capacity to investigate it, they pioneered a huge array of inventive techniques to study what things seemed to make marriages succeed or fail.
But Gen Z has adopted a more idealistic attitude, with many saying they want to find their soulmates—more than 40% are in serious relationships, and 27% are looking for “the one,” according ...
The Women in Technology International (WITI) is a global organization dedicated to the advancement of women in business and technology. [227] The Arab Women in Computing has many chapters across the world and focuses on encouraging women to work with technology and provides networking opportunities between industry experts and academicians and ...
Social attitudes towards women vary as greatly as the members of society themselves. From culture to culture, perceptions about women and related gender expectations differ greatly. In recent years, there has been a great shift in attitudes towards women globally as society critically examines the role that women should play, and the value that ...
There was a 5:1 ratio of men to women working in films. 30.8% of women having speaking characters, who may or may not have been a part of the 28.8% of women who were written to wear revealing clothing compared to the 7% of men who did, or the 26.2% of women who wore little to no clothing opposed to the 9.4% of men who did the same. [130]