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1. Excerpt: Chapter 4 “Myths & realities in the IT workplace” (PDF) Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (edited by Ronald J. Burke, Mary C. Mattis, 2007) ****I will upload the chapter 2. Hard work is irrelevant (20 min): http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/28/435583328/episode-647-hard-work-is-irrelevant 3. Podcast: When women stopped coding (17 min): http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/17/356944145/episode-576-when-women-stopped-coding 4. The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech (6 min): http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/10/06/345799830/the-forgotten-female-programmers-who-created-modern-tech Questions : From the excerpt: 1. Define “Workplace Climate”. What does it consist of? Name 3 examples. 2. Retention of Women in IT workspace is function of 2 broad classes of factors. What are they? From the podcasts: 1. How were women a big part of computer history? 2. How did computer science and IT become so male dominant?