As technology evolves, it fails to appeal to women as a satisfactory career option. Since the mid 1990s, fewer women have enrolled in computer science every year. Computer science needs more women engineers in order to add more diversity and creativity to the field. More women have joined math and science departments across the nation, but less women choose to pursue computer science. The first step in reversing this decline is to ask women who switch out of computer science to explain the key points that caused them to change careers. By answering that question, departments can advertise computer science to women better than they could without knowing what drives women away.
There are also women you never choose computer science that we need to contact. Total enrollments are lower for women so you need to find what is holding them back from enrolling in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI think you've hit at one of the roots of the problem. What's the point of trying to recruit women into the field if they field just drives them off?
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