That said, while women are present in computer science, there is no denying that they are underrepresented, and the gap is widening – with women making up only 25 percent of the computer science ...

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.

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

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.

PITTSBURGH — Women are making major gains in enrollment in engineering and computer science at some of the nation's most prominent colleges and universities, a breakthrough that shows that ...

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 ...

And it’s not simply that women are just making up a smaller proportional piece of a growing pie. The number of computer-science graduates stayed relatively flat from 1985 to 2010, at more than ...

Kimber Lockhart, who can remember being one of two or three women in her computer science lectures at Stanford, is now the senior director of application engineering at Box, a cloud storage ...

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 ...

He did something with computer science,'” says Ellora Israni, 21, a Stanford computer science major who cofounded she++, a group working to encourage girls and young women to pursue computing.

But TV shows and movies like Revenge of the Nerds and Big Bang Theory may help convince women that computer science (and other STEM fields) are only for men who have a particular personality type ...

The Women in Computer Science organization, a group dedicated to creating a safe and fun place to bring together all types of students, has been a staple of the University of Oregon’s Computer ...