This is an open access book that covers the complete set of experiences and results of the
FemTech.dk research which we have had conducted between 2016-2021 - from initiate idea to
societal communication. Diversity in Computer Science: Design Artefacts for Equity and
Inclusion presents and documents the principles results and learnings behind the research
initiative FemTech.dk which was created in 2016 and continues today as an important part of
the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen's strategic development for
years to come. FemTech.dk was created in 2016 to engage with research within gender and
diversity and to explore the role of gender equity as part of digital technology design and
development. FemTech.dk considers how and why computer science as a field and profession in
Denmark has such a distinct unbalanced gender representation in the 21st century. This book is
also the story of how we (the authors) as computer science researchers embarked on a journey to
engage with a new research field - equity and gender in computing - about which we had only
sporadic knowledge when we began. We refer here to equity and gender in computing as a research
field - but in reality this research field is a multiplicity of entangled paths concepts and
directions that forms important and critical insights about society gender politics and
infrastructures which are published in different venues and often have very different sets of
criteria values and assumptions. Thus part of our journey is also to learn and engage with
all these different streams of research concepts and theoretical approaches and through
these engagements to identify and develop our own theoretical platform which has a foundation
in our research backgrounds in Human-Computer Interaction broadly - and Interaction Design &
Computer Supported Cooperative Work specifically.
