Sunday, November 25, 2007
By PATRICIA ALEX
STAFF WRITER
Think Geek. Bet you're not picturing a woman.
For all the progress women have made in traditionally male-dominated fields,
they remain a small and shrinking minority in computer sciences, a
discipline that has come to dominate so much of modern life.
Our world increasingly is controlled by computers - in our homes, cars, on
our person. But women earn less than 30 percent of bachelor's degrees in
computer science, down from a peak of 38 percent in 1985. They are even more
underrepresented in academia - 9 percent of full professors of computer
science are women.
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