The 1984 Decline. And prior to 1984, the percent of women majoring in computer science was growing more quickly than the percent of men, according to NPR’s Planet Money. That year, it ...

An increase in the number of women studying computer sciences is attributed somewhat to companies such as Facebook, Yelp and Zynga and the movie, "The Social Network" portraying the knowledge as ...

In 1984, the percentage of women studying computer science flattened, and then plunged. Computer science programs are trying to get that number back up.

The graph makes it easy to see the general trend for women in computer science. The percentage of all computer-science degrees that went to women rose from less than 5 percent in 1970 to nearly 40 ...

Nineteen percent of bachelor’s degrees in computer science were awarded to women in the U.S. 2017-2018, and 23% of doctorates, ... (U.S. Census Bureau Graph) ...

In this graph, female enrollment in medical school, law school, and physical sciences goes up and up, while the number of women in computer science flatlines at 1984 and continues to decrease into ...

The low numbers of female computer science majors may have roots in the mid-1980s and the rise of personal computers Maris Fessenden Former correspondent In 1833, seventeen-year-old Ada Lovelace ...

Only 29.1% of CS Undergraduate and 30.1% of CS Master students at Columbia University are female illustrating the disparity in academia for women in Computer Science.

To the Editor: Thank you for publishing “Wanted: Female Computer-Science Students” (The Chronicle, January 13), on the lack of female students who pursue majors in computer science and related ...

To combat this issue and get more women interested in computer science, Reshma Saujani founded Girls Who Code.She believes the media has a huge influence in determining girls' career paths.

This article was originally published with the title “ Computer Science and Engineering Need Women ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 328 No. 2 (February 2023), p. 10 doi:10.1038 ...

But today, women are underrepresented in computer science, and we are rarely shown images of women in the field. But, even though this is our present reality, it wasn't always the case.