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Attracting Women Into Computer Science
Frisky070802 writes "U.S. News & World Report has an article about attracting women into Computer Science. '...That sense of isolation and inadequacy is one reason the number of women earning computer science degrees in this country has plummeted over the past two decades--with women dropping from 37 percent to 28 percent of graduates--at the very moment their presence in other scientific and engineering disciplines has soared. 'You look at the national statistics,' says Rick Rashid, senior vice president of research at Microsoft, 'and you just have to be appalled.'' It describes how some companies have even started summer camps to attract high school girls into high tech."
not for them you sicko's! for the smelly geeks that keep driving the girls away! That's how you get girls into IT.
No, the real issue is why fewer women join computer science courses. The trouble is that there may be a lot of women who don't mind computer science as a subject, but don't enrol in a computer science course for some other reasons (fear of male oriented study/work environment, lack of female role models etc).
atracting women to computer scientists?
See, Linux is sexist: To get to information, you must type "man". Typing "woman" instead gives you just an error message.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
You have been trolled. MadisonK is a man who dresses like a woman. Please moderate grandparent post down violently.