In her article, A Fifty Year Wave of Change, Maria Klawe discusses the decline of women receiving CS bachelor's degrees.



The percentage of CS bachelor's degrees granted in research universities to women is now down to 12 percent (for 2006/2007).

What are the reasons for this? Maria Klawe suggests:



What do you think the reasons are? What or who needs to change to reverse this trend?

I had lunch today with a young man studying computer science at a great university. He told me that 10% of his class is female. The problem seems to start back in high school. Girls aren't finding the relevance of math and sciences and thus aren't getting the basics they need to pursue a career in technology.
Over the last 30 years, women have broken down the barriers that kept them out of virtually every field they wanted to get into. But they still don't seem to want to get into the computer science.
We need some kind of PR campaign to make computer science appeal to girls.

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Women should be more active in receiving computer science education..
And this decline should be stopped by offering them various facilities plus a good job at the end of their education!

What other people say?

what a great info, thanks.
Thanks so much for this. I appreciate the effort. It really helps a lot.

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In 1997 a special program was launched by NTNU to increase the number of young women in computer science. First of all a special extra quota was established reserved exclusively for female students. Someone would argue that having special quotas would lead to students with inferior qualifications. This has not been the case. In 1997 and 1998 a total of 36 and 37 women respectively were admitted on this special quota. At NTNU students are admitted to the various faculties according to their grades from high school. Different faculties may have different qualification requirements. All of the ‘quota girls’ belong gradewise to the upper quarter of all the students at NTNU; definitely not a minor league team.

Information material especially designed for women were distributed to all the high schools in Norway, and all the women who expressed an interest in studying computer science at NTNU, were invited to participate in an all paid ‘girls day’ at the university. During this visit they would meet with students and faculty, and given all relevant information as a hands-on experience.

I think the trend will reverse in the near future. The industry is too large and the male/female borders wont be there like they are now.

What could we do now about it? I think we should all encourage our girls, or children for that matter, to follow their dreams no matter what the "norm" is.

When I was a student at Warsaw University of Technology there were 3 girls and 120 boys on my semester. It was a couple years ago. I have heard that now the girls percentage is growing but it is still not impressive.

The growth in S&E master's degrees is attributed not only to more women studying computer science and engineering, but also to the increasing number of Asian-American and foreign students majoring in these fields. Asian-American students and foreign students had similar high rates of growth in these fields: around 12 percent annually in computer science and 6 to 7 percent annually in engineering from 1977 to 1993. Underrepresented minorities also had high rates of growth in computer science and in engineering (5 percent) during this same time, but from a very small base. The participation rate of underrepresented minorities in master's level S&E programs has changed little since 1977. The recent progress made at the bachelor's degree level in increasing participation of underrepresented minorities in S&E degrees has not as yet made an impact on advanced degree levels.
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