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Women increasingly publish in ACM conference proceedings and are notably productive authors.

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James Dennis Kiper

This article describes a novel approach to quantifying female scholars' contributions to computer science (CS) research. One of the most significant statistics reported is that female authorship in ACM conferences increased significantly"?from seven percent to 27 percent"?between 1967 and 2009. Some of this increase can be attributed to the increased proportion of female scholars in CS (as measured by the increase in doctorates earned by women.) However, a more telling statistic is that each potential female author wrote one more paper each year on average than did potential male authors. The data for this study was produced using Genderyzer, a tool that deduces gender from authors' names. (The article includes analyses of the data to validate its ability to correctly infer gender from names.) The article presents few specific suggestions for increasing the number of women participating in CS at all levels. However, it provides strong evidence for the importance of female contributions to research and leadership in CS. To quote the authors, "Diversity of thought produces better and faster solutions to complex problems."? Online Computing Reviews Service

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 8
August 2011
129 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1978542
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