Women in STEM, Computing

The goal of the series of projects was to find out barriers and opportunities for women in STEM, particularly, in computing field and create an enabling, supporting environment. This exploration helped us to organize the Ada Lovelace Celebration (ALC) for Women in Computing. We started looking at it from Bangladesh and continued it beyond this region - looking at Afghanistan and beyond.

Peer Reviewed Publications

• Ahmed, N., Chowdhury, A. M., Urmi, T., & Jamal, L. (2022). Impact of socio-economic factors on female students’ enrollments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and workplace challenges in Bangladesh. American Behavioral Scientist, 00027642221078517. [pdf]

• Ahmed, N., Iftekhar, L., Tasmin, M., Urmi, T. I., Ahmed, S., & Motahar, T. (2022). Challenges for women in computing in Bangladesh considering the learning and workplace environment over a period of eight years. SN Social Sciences, 2(10), 227. [pdf]

• Ahmed, N., Tasmin, M., & Ibrahim, S. M. N. (2022). Technology for empowerment: Context of urban Afghan women. Technology in Society, 70, 102058.

• Ahmed, N.et al. (2022). Structured Training as an Enabler for Women in ICT. IEEE, TALE [pdf]

• Ahmed, N.et al. (2022). Opportunities for Women in Computing in Bangladesh. ICTD. [pdf]

• Ahmed, N., Urmi, T., & Tasmin, M. (2020, December). Challenges and Opportunities for Young Female Learners in STEM from the Perspective of Bangladesh. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) (pp. 39-46). IEEE. [pdf]

• Tasmin, M., Ahmed, N., & Motahar, T. (2019, December). Gender Disparity in Computer Science Education in Bangladesh: A Study of Women’s Participation in Computer Science. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (TALE) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.

• Shahria, M. T., & Ahmed, N. (2019, December). Collaborative Group Learning in Programming Classes. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (TALE) (pp. 1-4). IEEE. [pdf]

• Iftekhar, Lamia, et al. "Electrical and computer engineering laboratory education for female undergraduate students: Challenges and solutions from an urban perspective of Bangladesh." Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2015 10th International Conference on. IEEE, 2015.

Book

• Ahmed, N., Amin, A., Arya, S. S., Balela, M. D., Bassioni, G., Pires, F. F., ... & Eresso, M. Z. (2020). Motherhood in Science–How children change our academic careers. [pdf]

Report

• Aparajita:Women in Information Communication Technology, A work with Bd_OSN [pdf]

Blog Article

• Final Verdict [here]

Talk

• Asking everyone to join Ada Lovelace Celebration [here]

Unpublished Paper

• N. Ahmed et al. Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Computing. [pdf]