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If information technology (IT) is the wave of the future, many female students are failing to catch it or bailing out before getting a good ride. The Rochester Institute of Technology NY just got a $325,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to find out how to help them.
Dr. Elizabeth Lane Lawless and associates will use the two-year grant to study gender attrition in information technology. They will identify what factors influence female students to enter IT programs there, those that influence them to leave it, and what can be done to change recruiting, curricula and student support to keep ...