Thinking Out Loud
Stanford also wrote a report about women in the computer sciences. Their suggestion is “Also, the department should investigate what they can do to keep women or to encourage women to pursue higher education in computer science.” All they need to do to investigate what to do to keep women in computer science is to [...]
The summary of the section titled, “The Masculine Environment,” says: “These factors can cause a woman to feel out of place in a computer workplace and make it difficult for her to picture herself as a computer professional.” (The factors are evidently pinup posters, sports-dominated talk, and denegrating remarks.) Really? Is that what MIT’s computer [...]
“Most important, with a positive attitude, women can make the most of their situation.” Ellen Spertus, Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists? (http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pap/pap.html) This report, an internal study by MIT about why women avoid computer science, is the perfect starting place for my article. They recognize the problem but the solution is just [...]