Women in Computer Science: The college experience

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Further Information

Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?

Becoming a computer scientist: a report by the ACM committee on the status of women in computing science.

The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline - Tracy Camp Communications of the ACM, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 103-110, Oct. 1997.

The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline Unlikely to Reverse

Higher Education Research Institute The American Freshman 2000 Executive Summary

The Ada Project "The Ada Project (TAP) - named in honor of Ada Lovelace - is a clearinghouse for information and resources related to women in computing."

Women in Computer Science Academia

ACM's Committee on Women in Computing

Women in Computer Science Carnegie Mellon's Women@SCS

Women in Computer Sciences: Closing the Gender Gap in Higher Education

Stanford WICS

Association for Women in Computing