Since 1881, AAUW has encouraged women to study and work in these areas ....  factors have been found to limit girls' interest in mathematics and ... Not only are  people more likely to associate math and science with men than with women, ....  some of the largest increases will be in engineering- and computer-related ...
Oct 21, 2014 ... For decades, the share of women majoring in computer science was rising. ...  donate now · NPR Shop .... These early personal computers weren't much more  than toys. You could play pong or simple shooting games, maybe do some ...  Mellon University, which had one of the top programs in the country.
Oct 22, 2014 ... But these Commodore 64s, Radio Shack TRS-80s and others were ... As NPR  reports, you couldn't do much with these early computers, and ... stopped and  looked at me and said, 'You should know that by now,” ... computer science class  has started to enroll more women than men with ... Cici • 2 years ago.
Sep 2, 2014 ... For one field in particular, the classes, and for now, the future, look similar to the  ... Three decades later, computer science has become a much more vital  gateway ... Yet vastly more men than women are stepping through it. .... “God  knows what you would do to get 13-year-old girls interested in computers.
Oct 3, 2013 ... Hint: The answer has more to do with “The Big Bang Theory” than with ... As one  of the first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in .... “If you're not  confident that you should be here” — she imitated his scorn .... I asked why even  now there were no female professors on Yale's math faculty.
You had more women getting computer sciences degrees in the '80s by a factor of 2-plus than you do now.