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Calling All Computer Science Women?

Posted by Cliff on from the breaking-the-gender-barrier dept.

SemiBarbaricPrincess asks: "I'm currently in the middle of starting a 'Women In Computer Science' group at my college, and I'm wondering what other groups are out there, and what they do to help boost the number of women in CS." Slashdot last touched on this subject in this article from January. For the women readers in our audience: what do you think would be helpful in attracting more women to the world of computing?

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  1. Women In CS? by HRbnjR · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me understand? You want the /women/ in CS to respond to this article?

    This should be the easiest first post ever!

    (It's just too bad I'm male) In my CS faculty they had a saying - that they could count the number of women in CS on one hand... with three fingers cut off :)

    1. Re:Women In CS? by ecloud · · Score: 2, Funny
      In my CS faculty they had a saying - that they could count the number of women in CS on one hand... with three fingers cut off :)

      Sounds like something a CS scholar would say... 'cuz with two remaining fingers you can count in binary... you just need to sign the number serially. Use one finger as the clock and the other as the data indicator, or use one for "zero" and the other for "one", and consider any movement to be a clock tick.

  2. Re:Men in CS by Chris+Acheson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh wait, you already are.

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  3. Re:why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    is there any reason why we want more women in our field?

    Improved dating prospects.

  4. Let's count the IANAW by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Funny

    So far, I've seen plenty of "IANAW, but..." posts...

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