Researchers Aim to Attract and Keep Women and Minority Students in Computer Science (Newswise) With a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, computer science professors at the University of Virginia have formulated a program to attract and keep students from diverse backgrounds. This is important because colleges aren't graduating enough computer science majors.
Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? (Slashdot) ruheling writes "From yesterday's New York Times: ' What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?' In many US universities, over the past decade, there has been deliberate effort to integrate and encourage women and girls to get more involved in the 'hard' sciences, engineering, and math. However, instead of the proportion of women to men increasing, in Computer Science the opposite is actually ...
What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science? (The Tech) By Randall Stross THE NEW YORK TIMES Ellen Spertus '90, a graduate student at MIT, wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of 6-to-1. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at MIT female? She published a 124-page paper, "Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?", that catalogued different cultural biases that discouraged ...
What's driving women out of computer science? (ZDNet) When it comes to higher education, women have achieved parity with men in almost every technical pursuit...except computer science. With all science and engineering fields considered, the percentage of bachelor's degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85, according to National Science Foundation surveys. But when one looks only at computer ...
What has driven women out of computer science? (Greater Baton Rouge Business Report) (From The New York Times ) Ellen Spertus, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She published a 124-page paper, "Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?", that catalogued different cultural biases that discouraged girls ...
