A 2022 keynote for the ACM History Committee on "Why SIG History Matters: New Data on Gender Bias in ACM's Founding SIGs 1970-2000" presented new data describing women's participation as research-article authors in 13 early ACM Special Interest Groups, finding significant growth in women's participation across 1970-2000 and, additionally, remarkable differences in women's participation between the SIGs. That presentation built on several earlier publications that developed a research method for assessing the number of women computer scientists that [a] are chronologically prior to the availability of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data on women in the IT workforce; and [b] permit focused investigation of varied sub-fields within computing. This present report expands on these earlier articles, and their evolving research method, connecting them to the ACM SIG Heritage presentation. It also outlines some of the choices and considerations made in developing and refining "mixed methods" research (using both quantitative and qualitative approaches) as well as extensions of the research being currently explored.

翻译：2022年ACM历史委员会主题报告《为何SIG历史至关重要：关于1970-2000年间ACM创始SIG中性别偏见的新数据》提出了新数据，描述了13个早期ACM特别兴趣组中女性作为研究论文作者的参与情况，研究发现1970-2000年间女性参与度显著增长，同时各SIG之间女性参与度存在显著差异。该报告基于早前多项研究成果，这些研究开发了一种评估女性计算机科学家数量的研究方法，其特点在于：[a] 时间上早于劳工统计局关于IT劳动力中女性数据的可获取时期；[b] 允许对计算领域内不同子领域进行聚焦式调查。本报告对上述早期文献及其演进中的研究方法进行了拓展，并将其与ACM SIG Heritage报告相衔接。同时，本文还概述了在开发和完善“混合方法”研究（结合定量与定性方法）过程中所作的选择与考量，以及当前正在探索的研究延伸方向。