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Lagesen, Vivian Anette. “A Cyberfeminist Utopia? Perceptions of Gender and Computer Science among Malaysian Women Computer Science Students and Faculty.” Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 33, no. 1, 2008, pp. 5-27. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/29734019.

In her article “A Cyberfeminist Utopia? Perceptions of Gender and Computer Science among Malaysian Women Computer Science Students and Faculty” (2008), Vivian Lagesen argues against the common idea in Western cultures that computer science is inherently a masculine discipline by looking at women in computer science education in Malaysia. The author begins by describing in more depth the common claims about why women are excluded from technological fields such as the association of “technoscience” and the abilities of men, discriminatory practices in computer science, and the idea that computer science is inherently a masculine discipline. Lagesen then critiques this idea by looking at Malaysian women and the culture difference that may cause less Western women to go into this field. In order to know more deeply the reason behind their choice of computer science, Lagesen interviews female Malaysian students about choosing that route. The vast majority did not view it as special or out of the ordinary in any way and as a result the author examines the reasons this is so. The conclusion of the article is that two major reasons that Malaysian women are equally represented in computer science are that they don’t have a hacker or computer geek stereotype and they believe in the value of hard work and are willing to invest in it.

This source is credible because it is a scholarly article published in a journal called Science, Technology, & Human Values. This source differs from the other sources in my bibliography because it examines Malaysian women in computer science education rather than American women which is the focus of my article. While this may seem unrelated to my research, it is relevant because it allows me to both look at a society that models the goal of my essay and it helps me to understand what assumptions I might already have about women in technology or STEM because of the society I live in. This helps me shape my argument by showing that the idea I am arguing in my essay is attainable and women are not inherently unequal in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.