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Computer Ethics as a subject area is finally being debated in wider Computer Science and Information Technology academic circles. In most Computer Science departments the syllabus is based on publications often written specifically to deliver courses which deal with computer ethics topics seen by professional bodies as the most important for a computer professional. Much rarer is the occurrence of the questions of access and social exclusion, disability, global and green issues.
What has not yet been included in any systematic or conscientious way into the Computer Ethics syllabi are the questions of gender and associated ethical issues. Most students, and staff, are still not aware that all computing and ICT related areas have a gender element and that research material for them is available in the form of feminist or gender research in conference papers and proceedings and also book publications. While some writers advocate women only classes I believe that it is the departmental responsibility to educate men as well as women in issues of gender and ethics. The culture of gender exclusion will change only if both sexes recognise it as a problem.
In this paper I analyse the progress of inclusion of computer ethics as a discipline in computer science and I argue that the inclusion of gender issues within its teaching must in time follow similar pathway into the curriculum. I outline how gender issues can be brought to individual computing disciplines in a form illuminating its relevance to the students.
The talk will in four sections explain how the field of computer ethics developed, what the issues of Gender in computer ethics are, how computer ethics became mainstream and how to deliver a gender inclusive computer ethics curriculum.
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