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What are the best ways to increase the number of women in computer science?

November 15, 2012 | Author:Summer Allen, Graduate and Postdoc, Brown University
Girl with a computer

In some of my other posts (like here and here), I’ve looked at factors that cause women to drop out of science careers—a phenomenon called the "leaky pipeline." In computer science, however, the goal is to get more women into the pipe to begin with.