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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 24 > What has driven women out of computer science?

What has driven women out of computer science?

It was a puzzler nearly two decades ago, and there’s still no real definitive answer

By Randall Stross / The Bulletin
November 24, 2008

Ellen Spertus, a graduate student at MIT, wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of 6-to-1. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at MIT female? She published a 124-page paper, “Why Are There So Few Female Computer....

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