Project Description

Data

Defining IT

Literature

Reports

IT Workforce: Retention of Women and Minorities

Supported by Grant # EIA 0089995 from the National Science Foundation
Principal Investigators: Paula Stephan and Sharon Levin

Literature:

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Carver, Doris L. 2000. " Research Foundations for Improving the Representation of Women in the Information Technology Workforce ," Virtual Workshop Report.

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Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development. 2000. Land of Plenty: Diversity as America's Competitive Edge in Science, Engineering and Technology .

Department of Commerce, Office of Technology Policy. 1997.  America's New Deficit: The Shortage of Information Technology Workers .

________. 1998.  Update: America's New Deficit .

Ellis, Richard and B. Lindsay Lowell, 1999. IT Workforce Data Project , United Engineering Foundation.

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Freeman, Peter and William Aspray. 1999.  The Supply of Information Technology Workers in the United States . Washington, D.C: Computer Research Association.

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Levin, Sharon G., Paula E. Stephan and Anne Winkler.  1999. "Investigating Differential Employment Patterns of U.S.-Born and Immigrant Science and Engineering Doctorates:  Implications for Displacement."  Final Report, Sloan Foundation Grant 93-5-9 Levin, 9/97.

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Matloff, Norman. 1988.  "Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage." Testimony to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, updated April 8, 2000. (ftp://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/svreport.html).

Meares, Carol Ann and John Sargent, Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technology Policy. 1999. The Digital Workforce: Building Infotech Skills at the Speed of Innovation .

National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resource Studies. 1999. Retention of the Best Science and Engineering Graduates in Science and Engineering . Arlington, VA. [NSF 99-321].

________.  SESTAT: A Tool for Studying Scientists and Engineers in the United States . Arlington, VA.  [NSF 99-337].

National Science Foundation. 2000. Women, Minorities, and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering .  Arlington, VA. [NSF 00-327].

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Ward, Patricia A., Peter F. Orazem and Steffen W. Schmidt. 1992.  "Women in Elite Pools and Elite Positions."  Social Science Quarterly 73(1): 31-45.