Women's Place is in the
Computer Revolution

You probably didn't know it, but...
A black woman, Debra D. Williams, is chief of the Computer Services Division of the U.S. Commerce Department, and fluent in the main computer languages - FORTRAN, Assembler, and COBOL. Her job is to make sure that not one piece of information gets lost when the Census 2000 survey data starts rolling through the $30 millon state-of-the-art Bowie computer facility.

Pioneer women
The skills of women of colour are also at work in U.S.companies. Susan K. Sato-Allan is technical manager at TRW Systems and Information Group..

Kathy Torrence, a senior vice president in a Government Services Group, keeps her company competitive by using computers to track, document and report its human resources.

Sabrina Williams, a Ph.D. candidate in industrial engineering at Mississippi State University, a historically black southern college, is working hard to develop computer-aided management systems.

They give evidence of the ways computer-skilled women of colour are reshaping our view of how things are going to be in the future

Reshaping future
Would you like to be into Computers, but feel excluded from the Computer Revolution? Your comments can help academic researchers come up with useful suggestions for action to secure women's place in the Computer Revolution.

• What measures are needed for inclusion?
  What do you think should done to get more black women trained in computer technology?
• What positive action is required?
  What positive steps should specifically be taken by central government, by local authorities, education colleges, libraries, and companies to develop computer expertise among black women?
• How to bridge the generation gap?
  Ask somebody close to you to answer the same questions; maybe your mother, your auntie or your daughter. Tell us about the views of black women your age, older or younger than you. How do their views match up with or differ from yours?

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