We keep hearing how fewer and fewer women are entering (or staying in) engineering and computer science programs at universities and colleges. Carnegie Mellon and other schools have been studying the trends and issues and prescribing solutions. At our own (close to Borland’s Scott’s Valley offices) University of California at Santa Cruz an undergraduate student in Computer Engineering has won the 2004 Deans award and is thriving in the department.
Angela Schmid attributes her success to her involvement in student organizations, networking with other women, and finding supportive faculty members.
Read the story at http://currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/06-14/schmid.html
Other sources of information include:
Women and Computer Science web site - http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/Gender/gender.html
Carnegie Mellon University project on gender and computer science - http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~gendergap/
Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference - http://www.gracehopper.org/
Committee on the status of Women in Computer Research - http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/
Society of Women Engineers - http://www.swe.org/
Women in Technology International - http://www.witi.com/
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility women and computing home page - http://www.cpsr.org/program/gender/index.html
Girl Tech - http://www.math.rice.edu/~lanius/club/girls3.htmlAdditional links for women and minorities in information technology - http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~cfrieze/links.html
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Oh, cool! I think i remember angela form when i went to ucsc. that’s cool that she won the award.
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