Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold (Published 2007)

Ed Lazowska and his colleagues at the University of Washington created a Web page to demonstrate to prospective students “the broad range of interesting fields.”Credit...Stuart Isett for The New York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For decades, undergraduate women have been moving in ever greater numbers into science and engineering departments at American universities. Yet even as they approach or excee

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