Sentences with phrase «women of computer science»

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The weakness, by the same token, is in computer science, where women earn only 18 percent of undergraduate degrees.

At Harvey Mudd College, the Claremont, California - based institution where Klawe became president in 2006, a full half of students who graduate with degrees in computer science, engineering, and physics are women.

«The vast majority of women who show up at Harvey Mudd didn't expect to want to major in computer science,» said Klawe.

In computer science, engineering, and physics, said Klawe, «underrepresented» means women and people of color.

In comparison, just 18 percent of computer science graduates nationwide are women — a percentage that's been shrinking since 1985, when it stood at 37 percent.

The fraction of women pursuing degrees in computer science has declined dramatically since the 1980s.

That ongoing debate revolves around whether the lack of women in high - growth entrepreneurship is partly attributable to the fact that only 18 percent of undergraduate computer science degrees are earned by women.

Thanks in no small part to Klawe, women now make up 40 % of computer science majors at the college, up from 10 % in 2005.

She also said there should be more women in the field of computer science, an area that has traditionally been dominated by men.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

Because beyond his typically bombastic proclamation that «it's already too late» for most women to become programmers is a much more important message: Computer science ought to be a basic part of school curriculum, giving both male and female students early exposure to an increasingly important skill set in today's economy.

For example, women earn roughly 18 percent of all computer science degrees in the United States.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

Some would - be defenders of Silicon Valley culture have responded that since only 20 % of computer and information science degrees were awarded to women (as of 2008, down from 37 % in 1985) we are exactly where we ought to be.

How big a problem is the pipeline — the fact that women earn only 18 percent of computer science degrees?

Yes, it's true that the number of women with computer science degrees has dropped.

This might not seem like a big deal, but it played a big part of lifting computer science enrollment to 40 percent women from just 10 percent.

This huge falling off of women wanted to go into computer science,» she said.

That's brutally low, especially when you consider that 27 % of computer science and math - related jobs are held by women in the US.

This high ranking is due in large part to the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Information Studies at SU that devote themselves to recruiting women for these fields at an early age and helping them feel comfortable in a college setting and a STEM field.

... The first grants will support Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women)Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women)computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).»

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This book, which grows out of an exhibit at the Grolier Club in New York, introduces the lives, sayings, and dreams of sixteen women over four centuries and chronicles their contributions to mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, computer science, and medicine.

She was an active member of the women in computer [science] society, flew planes, and did other outdoor activities during weekends,» he says.

Women receive more than 40 percent of undergraduate degrees in math, for example, but just 18 percent of degrees in computer science.

Today, Aragon is one of a very small number of Latino women working in computer science.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

This annual $ 10,000 award recognizes an individual, program, or organization in the U.S. that encourages the advancement of girls and women in the natural and physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, computer science, and technology.

After starting her career in computer science in the late 1980s, Jennifer Sheridan knows firsthand how a male - oriented culture can drive women out of the job.

It's a fact: Women are vastly underrepresented in the fields of computer science, engineering, and mathematics.

Studies show that women are significantly underrepresented in the IT field, and the number of women who've graduated with degrees in computer and information science have plummeted from 37 percent in 1985 to 18 percent in 2011.

Women lag behind men in the lucrative computer science and technology industries, and one of the possible contributors to this disparity is that they're less likely to enroll in introductory computer science courses.

The researchers say that changing computer science stereotypes to make more students feel welcome in high school classrooms would help recruit more girls to the field, which has one of the lowest percentages of women among STEM fields.

For as Mary Beth Ruskai, a mathematics professor, recently commented on the attitude of women to science: «Although it may be acceptable for boys to be computer experts in the sense that it is not «unmasculine», such interests are nonetheless regarded as «nerdy», rather than virile or socially attractive...» (The Scientist, 5 March 1990).

«She's a woman, a lesbian, and she has a long track record of improving diversity in computer science.»

Although there have been significant gains in women's representation in life and physical sciences since 1990, the share of women working in computer occupations has gone down 7 percentage points.

Gender bias in hiring is not blatant, the authors found, but gender - associated differences in productivity, postdoctoral experience, and institutional prestige of degree - granting institutions — which are likely due to bias against women during the training process — largely account for the observed gender imbalance in computer science faculty hiring networks.

Due to the paucity of women with Ph.D. s in computer science — in 2011, just 20 % of computer science Ph.D. recipients were female — efforts by the top - ranked departments to improve their gender ratios might come at the expense of institutions below them, explains lead author Samuel Way of CU Boulder.

Gender plays a complicated role in the hiring of computer science tenure - track faculty members, of which on average only about 15 % are women, according to a study presented today at the peer - reviewed International World Wide Web Conference in Montreal, Canada, and posted on the arXiv preprint server in February.

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For example, the underrepresentation of women in fields like engineering and computer science may be due to levels of confidence and interest in related subjects in high school.

Display consisting of 11 different women who have been influential in Computer science (past and present).

In response to a serious shortage of women in computer science and information technology, GirlTECH works to promote participation by girls and women through K - 12 student and teacher programs, university - student admission and retention programs, and national outreach and awareness efforts.

Similarly, despite more women attending the university overall, less than a third of successful applicants choosing to study engineering, maths and computer science at Cambridge were female.

The organization is dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing the participation of traditionally underserved groups like women and minorities.

«As part of Harvard Graduate School of Education's (HGSE) yearlong focus on diversity, experts from computer science, engineering, and education gathered to discuss why the underrepresentation of women and girls, as well as African - Americans and Latinos, is so common.»

Not only was she one of just two women in her computer science courses, she also felt that her male peers had been much better prepared to succeed in the program.

Figures from the US suggest that women hold about 40 per cent of mathematics degrees, but only 18 per cent of engineering and computer science degrees.