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Hobbs, Shakira R., Bethany Gordon, Evvan V. Morton, and Leidy Klotz. "Black Women Engineers as Allies in Adoption of Environmental Technology: Evidence from a Community in Belize." Environmental Engineering Science 36, no. 8 (August 2019): 851–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ees.2018.0463.

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Khalilov, Vladimir. "Contemporary American Drama: Socio-Political Aspect." Russia and America in the 21st Century, no. 1 (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207054760018948-9.

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The article deals with the topical issues of American drama based on the analysis of works by contemporary US playwrights, many of whom are representatives of groups classified as oppressed (in a white patriarchal society). The author examines popular topics and trends in cultural life in the context of public and political life in the United States over the past 70 years - from the Civil Rights Movement, "Women's Liberation" and Stonewall to "Black Lives Matter", "#MeToo" and LGBTQ prides. The author concludes that the current repertoire was directly influenced by the progressive agenda with its ambitious plan for large-scale social transformations that affected all cultural institutions, including theater. By highlighting the struggle for social equality and justice, the rights of blacks, women, ethnic and sexual minorities, diversity and inclusion, as well as condemnation of capitalism and American imperialism, progressivism has placed art at the service of ideology, once again turning cultural figures into 'engineers of human souls' - but also contributed to the expansion of opportunities for members of under-represented groups, integration, the development of intercultural dialogue and the emergence of new dramatic voices.
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Rahhal, Tojan B., Steven L. Devlin, and Elizabeth G. Loboa. "Inclusive Innovation: Creating a Conference To Promote Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math." Technology & Innovation 21, no. 2 (March 15, 2020): 123–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.21300/21.2.2020.123.

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The College of Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia (MU Engineering) develops engineering leaders who positively influence society and bring innovation to the global workforce. Recruiting top students from around the world to fuel an atmosphere of excellence and cutting-edge growth, MU Engineering prepares out-of-the-box thinkers, innovators, and entrepreneurs who stand ready to lead today and adapt to tomorrow. To engage all of our students with industry in an inclusive space, the MU Engineering Office of Diversity and Outreach Initiatives established the Diverse Engineering Professionals Conference in 2017 in partnership with a student committee. The committee included representatives from various organizations, including the National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Engineering Student Council, Society of Women Engineers, and Out in STEM. Industrial sponsorships were secured with assistance from the MU Engineering Leadership, Engagement and Career Development Academy. The daylong conference recognizes diversity organizations and diverse students and their achievements while promoting our core college values of integrity, excellence, and collaboration. The conference includes professional development and diversity education workshops, research presentations, keynote speakers, and a closing ceremony. In its first year, the conference featured nine companies and attracted about 75 attendees. In year two, the conference nearly doubled its impact with 12 companies and 150 attendees, including students from all majors, years, and demographics. The conference was well received across both years and continues to grow as an annual effort in the college. Feedback from company representatives and students re-emphasized the need for an intimate company-student environment like that found at the Diverse Engineering Professionals Conference.
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Dott, Robert. "Two Remarkable Women Geologists of the 1920s: Emily Hahn (1905-1997) and Katharine Fowler (1902-1997)." Earth Sciences History 25, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 197–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.25.2.e064106t42phh300.

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Emily Hahn and Katharine Fowler challenged gender barriers decades ahead of modern feminism, and, together with other pioneering women geologists, they provide inspiration for all. They met at the University of Wisconsin in 1925. Hahn had chosen engineering because a professor said women can not be engineers. Rejecting an office-only mining career, she then found her ultimate calling as writer and world traveler, spending two years in the Belgian Congo (1931-33) and eight in China (1935-43). During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, she had a daughter by a British officer, whom she married in 1945. Fowler came from Bryn Mawr College to Wisconsin to compete in a men's world. They forced acceptance as the first women to take a mining geology field trip and a topographic mapping field course. Later, in disguise, Fowler gained admission to a Black Hills mine and then did Ph.D. field work alone in Wyoming. After an African Geological Congress, she worked in the Sierra Leone bush (1931-33) and then began teaching at Wellesley College (1935). She attended a 1937 Soviet Union Geological Congress, taking harrowing field trips in the Caucusus Mountains and Siberia. From 1938, she and her new husband, Harvard geologist Marland Billings, collaborated in important New England research.
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Nakamura, Lisa. "Feeling good about feeling bad: virtuous virtual reality and the automation of racial empathy." Journal of Visual Culture 19, no. 1 (April 2020): 47–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470412920906259.

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Virtual reality (VR)’s newly virtuous identity as the ‘ultimate empathy machine’ arrives during an overtly xenophobic, racist, misogynist, and Islamophobic moment in the US and abroad. Its rise also overlaps with the digital industries’ attempts to defend themselves against increasingly vocal critique. VR’s new identity as an anti-racist and anti-sexist technology that engineers the right kind of feeling has emerged to counter and manage the image of the digital industries as unfeeling and rapacious. In this article, the author engages with VR titles created by white and European producers that represent the lives of black and Middle Eastern women and girls in Lebanon, Nairobi, and Paris. She argues that the invasion of personal and private space that documentary VR titles ‘for good’ create is a spurious or ‘toxic empathy’ that enables white viewers to feel that they have experienced authentic empathy for these others, and this digitally mediated compassion is problematically represented in multiple media texts as itself a form of political activism.
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Woodcock, Andree, Jacquie Bridgman, Kat Gut, Paul Magee, Sinead Ouillon, Janet Saunders, and Nicola York. "Increasing gender sensitivity with codesign." International Conference on Gender Research 5, no. 1 (April 13, 2022): pp266–273. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/icgr.5.1.177.

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The Horizon Europe 2020 TInnGO (Transport Innovation Gender Observatory) project1 aimed to facilitate and empower the inclusion of underrepresented and diverse groups in smart mobility. Women are still considered to be an underrepresented group across the transport sector, forming less than 30% of all employees in the sector. Significantly women’s travel needs are not met by current transport provision, despite widespread evidence that they make different types of journeys and have different mobility concerns. It may hypothesised that even less is known about other minority groups (such as those from the BAME (Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic community and those with disabilities). The design of future transport services and products is further skewed by the predominance of male undergraduate transport designers and engineers. While there are many noteworthy attempts to attract young women into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers and provide support for them in the male dominated sector, the work conducted by TInnGO’s Coventry team focussed on developing gender and diversity sensitive smart mobility solutions to highlight everyday mobility issues for women. These have been termed ‘Design provocations,’ 50 such designs were produced over 18 months in conjunction with 4 undergraduate design interns and are available for comment on our Open Innovation Platform2. From this experience, the team have produced a series of design tools to facilitate undergraduate student’s empathy and awareness when designing gender and diversity sensitive smart mobility products. [1] https://www.tinngo.eu/ [2] https://oip.transportgenderobservatory.eu/home
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Liu, Xiaowen, Laurel A. Lagenaur, David A. Simpson, Kirsten P. Essenmacher, Courtney L. Frazier-Parker, Yang Liu, Daniel Tsai, et al. "Engineered Vaginal Lactobacillus Strain for Mucosal Delivery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Inhibitor Cyanovirin-N." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 50, no. 10 (October 2006): 3250–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aac.00493-06.

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ABSTRACT Women are at significant risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, with the cervicovaginal mucosa serving as a major portal for virus entry. Female-initiated preventatives, including topical microbicides, are urgently needed to help curtail the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Here we report on the development of a novel, live microbicide that employs a natural vaginal strain of Lactobacillus jensenii engineered to deliver the potent HIV inhibitor cyanovirin-N (CV-N). To facilitate efficient expression of CV-N by this bacterium, the L. jensenii 1153 genome was sequenced, allowing identification of native regulatory elements and sites for the chromosomal integration of heterologous genes. A CV-N expression cassette was optimized and shown to produce high levels of structurally intact CV-N when expressed in L. jensenii. Lactobacillus-derived CV-N was capable of inhibiting CCR5-tropic HIVBaL infectivity in vitro with a 50% inhibitory concentration of 0.3 nM. The CV-N expression cassette was stably integrated as a single copy into the bacterial chromosome and resolved from extraneous plasmid DNA without adversely affecting the bacterial phenotype. This bacterial strain was capable of colonizing the vagina and producing full-length CV-N when administered intravaginally to mice during estrus phase. The CV-N-producing Lactobacillus was genetically stable when propagated in vitro and in vivo. This work represents a major step towards the development of an inexpensive yet durable protein-based microbicide to block the heterosexual transmission of HIV in women.
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Scarano, Antonio, Vito Crincoli, Adriana Di Benedetto, Valerio Cozzolino, Felice Lorusso, Michele Podaliri Vulpiani, Maria Grano, Zamira Kalemaj, Giorgio Mori, and Felice Roberto Grassi. "Bone Regeneration Induced by Bone Porcine Block with Bone Marrow Stromal Stem Cells in a Minipig Model of Mandibular “Critical Size” Defect." Stem Cells International 2017 (2017): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9082869.

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Introduction. Adding stem cells to biodegradable scaffolds to enhance bone regeneration is a valuable option. Different kinds of stem cells with osteoblastic activity were tested, such as bone marrow stromal stem cells (BMSSCs). Aim. To assess a correct protocol for osteogenic stem cell differentiation, so BMSSCs were seeded on a bone porcine block (BPB). Materials and Methods. Bone marrow from six minipigs was extracted from tibiae and humeri and treated to isolate BMSSCs. After seeding on BPB, critical-size defects were created on each mandible of the minipigs and implanted with BPB and BPB/BMSSCs. After three months, histomorphometric analysis was performed. Results. Histomorphometric analysis provided percentages of the three groups. Tissues present in control defects were 23 ± 2% lamellar bone, 28 ± 1% woven bone, and 56 ± 4% marrow spaces; in BPB defects were 20 ± 5% BPB, 32 ± 2% lamellar bone, 24 ± 1% woven bone, and 28 ± 2% marrow spaces; in BPB/BMSSCs defects were 17 ± 4% BPB/BMSSCs, 42 ± 2% lamellar bone, 12 ± 1% woven bone, and 22 ± 3% marrow spaces. Conclusion. BPB used as a scaffold to induce bone regeneration may benefit from the addition of BDPSCs in the tissue-engineered constructs.
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Conley, Mary Ellen, A. Kerry Dobbs, Anita M. Quintana, Amma Bosompem, Yong-Dong Wang, Elaine Coustan-Smith, Amber M. Smith, Elena E. Perez, and Peter J. Murray. "Agammaglobulinemia and absent B lineage cells in a patient lacking the p85α subunit of PI3K." Journal of Experimental Medicine 209, no. 3 (February 20, 2012): 463–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20112533.

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Whole exome sequencing was used to determine the causative gene in patients with B cell defects of unknown etiology. A homozygous premature stop codon in exon 6 of PIK3R1 was identified in a young woman with colitis and absent B cells. The mutation results in the absence of p85α but normal expression of the p50α and p55α regulatory subunits of PI3K. Bone marrow aspirates from the patient showed <0.1% CD19+ B cells with normal percentages of TdT+VpreB+CD19− B cell precursors. This developmental block is earlier than that seen in patients with defects in the B cell receptor signaling pathway or in a strain of engineered mice with a similar defect in p85α. The number and function of the patient’s T cells were normal. However, Western blot showed markedly decreased p110δ, as well as absent p85α, in patient T cells, neutrophils, and dendritic cells. The patient had normal growth and development and normal fasting glucose and insulin. Mice with p85α deficiency have insulin hypersensitivity, defective platelet function, and abnormal mast cell development. In contrast, the absence of p85α in the patient results in an early and severe defect in B cell development but minimal findings in other organ systems.
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Kim, Luke, Evelin Trejo, Dame Idossa, Narjust Duma, and Ana I. Velazquez Manana. "Quality and content of online cancer information: An analysis of NCI-designated cancer center YouTube videos." Journal of Clinical Oncology 40, no. 16_suppl (June 1, 2022): 11041. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2022.40.16_suppl.11041.

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11041 Background: The internet and social media have become a common source of medical information. Previous analyses have found that YouTube videos disseminate biased cancer related information of low to moderate quality. We analyzed online information disseminated by NCI-designated Cancer Centers (CC) through their YouTube pages. Methods: We searched CC websites and online search engines to identify CC-specific YouTube pages. Our sample included each CC’s top 20 most-viewed videos uploaded during 2019, which were < 5 minutes long, and available in English or Spanish. We examined video content themes and speaker demographics. For patient education videos, we evaluated content understandability and quality of information using validated measures [i.e., Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) and DISCERN]. Data was summarized using descriptive statistics. Results: A total of 31 of 64 clinical NCI-designated CC had dedicated YouTube pages. Only 6 (19%) CC had videos in languages other than English. A total of 402 videos were examined for content themes and demographic characteristics. 43% focused on patient education (n = 175), 36% research (n = 139), 24% survivorship (n = 95), and 13% clinical trials (n = 52). 32% (n = 119) of speakers were doctors and 18% (n = 65) patients. Perceived speakers’ ethnicity was 57% White (n = 229), followed by Asian (15%, n = 60), Black or African American (8%, n = 32), and Latinx (4%, n = 16). Perceived gender of speakers was 49% women (n = 197) and 51% men (n = 203). Most videos were understandable (91%, n = 159), but only 21% (n = 36) provided high quality information. Videos discussing treatments lacked discussion of risks, alternate options, and effects on quality of life. Conclusions: Most patient education videos uploaded to NCI-designated CC YouTube pages have low to moderate quality information and limited ethnic diversity of speakers. With ongoing trends of increasing misinformation spreading through social media, CC have an opportunity to create and disseminate high-quality, reliable, and comprehensive educational videos that meet the informational needs of patients with cancer and their caregivers.[Table: see text]
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Foster, Vuyiswa Xoliswa Nontuthuzelo. "Career aspirations of female engineering students at an FET institution." Diss., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2370.

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The purpose of the study was to describe factors that influence black females to choose engineering as a career. It transpired from the literature study that enabling environment, gender of role models, self-efficacy and socialization are important factors in terms of causing and attracting females into the fields of science and engineering study. From the empirical study it came out clearly that family members, female role members, and confidence in mathematics and science were factors that caused the females in engineering group to choose it as a career. Findings also revealed that gender stereotypes did not deter them from choosing engineering and that they were content with their career choice. For the above factors to be addressed incentives exclusive to females should be launched by government so as to attract more females to the fields of science and engineering. Schools also need to pursue programmes that expose learners to these fields.
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consultant, Harris Duchess author, ed. Hidden human computers: The black women of NASA. ABDO Publishing Company, 2017.

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Harris, Duchess. Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA. ABDO Publishing Company, 2017.

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Amadhila, Petra. I'm an Enginere Engenere Engeneer I'm Good with Math: Black Lined 6x9 Unique Notebook Journal for Engineers, Funny Gift for Women, Men, Kids, Boys and Girls. Independently Published, 2020.

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BAVIKA. Environmental Engineer She Believed She Could So She Did: Blank Lined Journal Notebook for Environmental Engineer, Environmental Engineering, ... Gifts for Women, Gift for Christmas - Women Engineers. Independently Published, 2021.

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BAVIKA. Environmental Engineer She Believed She Could So She Did: Blank Lined Journal Notebook for Environmental Engineer, Environmental Engineering, ... Gifts for Women, Gift for Christmas - Women Engineers. Independently Published, 2021.

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Press, Real Journal. God Found Some of the Strongest Women and Made Them Engineers: Journal for Engineers Blank Lined Notebook,Engineers Gifts for Women,Funny Gift for ... Blank Pages Matte Finish Cover. Independently Published, 2020.

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Notebooks, Women Cute. Strongest Women Become Engineers Notebook: Engineer Gift Lined Notebook / Journal / Diary Gift, 120 Blank Pages, 6x9 Inches, Matte Finish Cover. Independently Published, 2020.

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Publishing, And. You're an Awesome Biomedical Engineer Keep That Shit Up: Graduation Novelty Funny Notebook, Blank Dot Grid Journal, Diary Personalized Gift Ideas~Civil, Aerospace, Engineers, Engineering, Engineered Majors for Men,Women. Independently Published, 2020.

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Notebooks, Women Cute. Strongest Women Become Industrial Engineers Notebook: Industrial Engineer Gift Lined Notebook / Journal / Diary Gift, 120 Blank Pages, 6x9 Inches, Matte Finish Cover. Independently Published, 2020.

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Notebooks, Women Cute. Strongest Women Become Civil Engineers Notebook: Civil Engineer Gift Lined Notebook / Journal / Diary Gift, 120 Blank Pages, 6x9 Inches, Matte Finish Cover. Independently Published, 2020.

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Brown, Jeannette. "Chemical Engineers." In African American Women Chemists. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199742882.003.0011.

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Dr. Lilia Abron is an engineer, an entrepreneur, mother, and activist who works twelve-hour days. She is another true Renaissance woman. Lilia was born at home in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 8, 1945. She was small, premature, and almost did not survive were it not for her aunt, who rushed her to the hospital in a cab because ambulances were not available to black people at the time. She was the second of four daughters of Ernest Buford Abron and Bernice Wise Abron, who were both educators. Both of her parents had attended LeMyone College. Her father entered college and played football. Because of an injury he was ineligible to serve in the military in World War II. He then worked as a Pullman porter, because his father had been a Pullman porter. After the war, when the trains were not as popular, he became a teacher in the Memphis public schools. Lilia’s mother and father were very active during the civil rights era. Lilia’s mother was from Arkansas; and she typed the briefs for Wiley Branton, defense attorney for the Little Rock Nine, the group that integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Because Lilia’s parents were active in Memphis society, Lilia was involved in programs that included the Girl Scouts and the church. She went to public school in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, which led the United States to improve math and science education. The school system tracked each student’s education, even in the segregated schools. Therefore, Lilia was placed in the math and science track. This meant she participated in a science fair, which was held at Lemoyne College. In addition, she had to prepare other science projects. Her segregated schools were well equipped for science teaching. In addition to well-stocked labs, the Memphis high school that she attended offered higher-level mathematics, including algebra and introduction to calculus. She graduated from high school in Memphis and decided to go to college with the intention of studying medicine, which was the one of the few occupations available to black people at the time.
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Brown, Jeannette E. "Introduction." In African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615178.003.0005.

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When I wrote my first book African American Women Chemists I neglected to state that it was a historical book. I researched to find the first African American woman who had studied chemistry in college and worked in the field. The woman that I found was Josephine Silane Yates who studied chemistry at the Rhode Island Normal School in order to become a science teacher. She was hired by the Lincoln Institute in 1881 and later was, I believe, the first African American woman to become a professor and head a department of science. But then again there might be women who traveled out of the country to study because of racial prejudice in this country. The book ended with some women like myself who were hired as chemists in the industry before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Therefore, I decided to write another book about the current African American women chemists who, as I say, are hiding in plain sight. To do this, I again researched women by using the web or by asking questions of people I met at American Chemical Society ACS or National Organization for the Professional Advances of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) meetings. I asked women to tell me their life stories and allow me to take their oral history, which I recorded and which were transcribed thanks to the people at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. Most of the stories of these women will be archived at the CHF in their oral history collection. The women who were chosen to be in this book are an amazing group of women. Most of them are in academia because it is easy to get in touch with professors since they publish their research on the web. Some have worked for the government in the national laboratories and a few have worked in industry. Some of these women grew up in the Jim Crow south where they went to segregated schools but were lucky because they were smart and had teachers and parents who wanted them to succeed despite everything they had to go through.
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Jeske, Christine. "“I have a good story”." In The Laziness Myth, 161–84. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752506.003.0007.

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This chapter demonstrates how asking the question “What is the good life?” leads to different knowledge than asking questions like “How can we generate employment?” or “How can we achieve economic growth?” The chapter offers a deeper look into the lives of four individuals who said they were currently living the good life: an engineer in a high-status job, an artist forging new relationships through his church and community, a low-wage worker in an unusual shoe factory, and a recently unemployed woman starting a small business. The stories offer evidence that the good life does not necessarily depend on employment status. Instead, the good life comes about through complex interactions of social and individual factors, as well as the ways by which people learn to make meaning out of their circumstances. The four individuals shaped concepts of the good life that made sense of their experiences within an antiblack and segregated society. They found themselves in socially embedded economic structures, and spaces where black cultural capital was validated. The fact that they often attributed these circumstances to good fortune should not prevent us from imagining and implementing ways to replicate such structures.
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Steinbach, Theresa, James White, and Linda Knight. "Encouraging Minority Enrollment in IT Degree Programs through Participatory Organizations." In 2002 Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2576.

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Worldwide demand for qualified IT workers has employers exploring under-represented segments of the workforce. The percentage of women IT workers is not keeping pace with the growth of the industry. Minority populations, which are country specific, are also under-represented segments. This paper focuses on three significant minority segments in the United States: women, African Americans and Hispanic Americans. Studies have shown that increasing the number of these three groups enrolled in university computer science programs can help ease the shortage of qualified IT workers. One approach to attract and retain these students is to encourage the use of participatory organizations. This paper traces the initial efforts of one university to retain these segments through student-led chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery - Women, National Society of Black Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Critical success factors are identified for use by other universities interested in initiating similar programs.
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