role models to encourage other women to join these typically non-traditional female fields of work and study. This book … provides a collection of recent high-quality empirical studies related to the education and careers of women in engineering …, science and technology disciplines, with cases on innovative approaches to attracting and supporting women in training courses …

women remain underrepresented in this industry"--Provided by publisher. …, market, and culture -- Games and society: can games make a better world? -- Play preferences and the gendering of gaming … women game developers -- Issues career women face -- Reflections for the future -- Final thoughts and concluding comments …

review of the empirical literature / Sefa Kwami Awaworyi Churchill -- Money of her own and the politics of women … managers / Megan Alessandrini, Romy Winter -- Is M-PESA a model for financial inclusion and women empowerment in Kenya …? / Violet N. Barasa, Charles Lugo -- Economic empowerment of women in Pakistan / Sofia Idris -- The case for group heterogeneity …

, emerging priorities, and provides a detailed region-by-region picture of performance in the developing regions of the world … empowerment of women (the third MDG) and the special problems of fragile states, where extreme poverty is increasingly … concentrated. The report, which is jointly issued by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, argues that gender …