Where are the Women in Computer Science?
The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline
- 1996 data
women BS 27.5%
women MS 26.7%
women PhD 14.5%
- 1997 data
women CS professors
assistant 16.4%
associate 11.7%
full 7.6%
What is being done to increase Women in CS?
- Software games
- What interests girls?
- What doesn't interest girls?
violence, war
- Target age
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PipeLINK
- Talks to 16 high schools "what is computer science?"
- Summer Undergraduate research program - 8 women
- Two-week summer high school program - 20 women
- Pipeline of mentors (HS, undergrad, grad, faculty) - women
Resources
Susan H. Rodger
Last modified: Mon Feb 26 10:49:22 EST 2001