You know how those dance dance revolution games are really popular? I saw a *DOG WALKING* arcade game in Japan. It's like a treadmill, pretty much, with a cute dog on the screen and you hold this leash thing and you take this dog on a walk. Sometimes you have to run and chase cats and stuff. What's up with that?!
Many school administrators are concerned about the number women going into any technical major. In the college of engineering at the University of Texas, they have set up a program to try to retain female students in engineering. (For more information, see the WEP page at http://www.engr.utexas.edu/wep/ . While such a program has been rather successful in the engineering department, there is no such program in the computer science department (CS is under the college of natural sciences here) -- or none that I know of.
The problem is not that women are not being *accepted* into computer science or that they are not smart enough. The fact is computer science and other technical majors are very difficult. Without having a good study group or a mentor, women may feel overwhelmed in a technical major and decide to switch to non-technical major. I would know, because I have left EE and CS. Although I would have liked to receive a technical degree, I didn't want to suffer through classes that I did not really have my heart into.
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You know how those dance dance revolution games are really popular? I saw a *DOG WALKING* arcade game in Japan. It's like a treadmill, pretty much, with a cute dog on the screen and you hold this leash thing and you take this dog on a walk. Sometimes you have to run and chase cats and stuff. What's up with that?!
The problem is not that women are not being *accepted* into computer science or that they are not smart enough. The fact is computer science and other technical majors are very difficult. Without having a good study group or a mentor, women may feel overwhelmed in a technical major and decide to switch to non-technical major. I would know, because I have left EE and CS. Although I would have liked to receive a technical degree, I didn't want to suffer through classes that I did not really have my heart into.