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Considers the position of women in the computing industry and the impact of new technology on women employed in information handling occupations. Examines the role of traditional attitudes to women, education and training, this is of particular importance as the computer industry faces a skill crisis in the 1990s. Trends would seem to suggest that although women have the potential to take up new opportunities in computing, they fail to see computing as an attractive option and are technically ill‐equipped to do so.

Volume 7 Number 7 of this journal includes four useful articles. The first by Val Hammond, is entitled “Opportunity 2000: A Culture Change Approach to Equal Opportunity.”