How One College Is Closing The Computer Science Gender Gap

Source: NPR Posted By: Claire M...4020 days ago

Klawe isn't concerned about filling quotas or being nice to women. Rather, she's deeply troubled that half the population is grossly underrepresented in this all-important field. Women aren't setting the agenda and designing products and services that are shaping our lives. They're getting only about 18 percent of the bachelor's degrees in computer science, and in the workplace their numbers aren't much higher.
Seated in her modest office on the Claremont, Calif., campus, Klawe, 61, reflects on....

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