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Computer science culture repels women.(NEWSWATCH)
While fields such as math, science, and chemistry have seen growing enrollment and involvement of women, the numbers appear to be shrinking for women in computer science. Women earned only 17% of computer undergraduate computer science degrees in 2004, compared with 19% in 2000, according to the Computing Research Association.
Other sciences and engineering have a long history of male dominance. But because computer science was born in more modern times, it had the potential of creating more gender equity. In the early 1980s, it had one of the highest female representations of the sciences, but today computer science is one of the least balanced fields in the nation.
Some computer scientists see the lack of women as a sign of larger failure in ...
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