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From drudgery to toolkit…and still few women

2009 March 17
by Anne Dalke

Report from this morning’s NYTimes: computer science programs are making a comeback. Their reputation has morphed–no longer a site for drudgework, but “increasingly seen as a toolkit for pursuing a number of modern careers.” Read, however, to the end of the article. Despite “amazing increases in enrollment,” “diversity in computer science programs continued to remain poor. For example, the fraction of bachelor’s degrees awarded to women remained steady at 11.8 percent in 2008.”

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