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How Harvey Mudd College increased gender ratio in CS from 10% female to 40%
- jchonphoenix 15y agoThe unanswered question is how they went about doing it. If they were really able to increase it to 40% purely by peaking interest, then that's great! If they did it through other means, however, they're potentially not actually solving any of the inherent problems. They may just be creating quotas and biasing the pool of students they pull from.
- nandemo 15y ago> When she arrived, 33% of the student body was female, but only 10% of computer science majors were female. Today, 42% of the student body is female, and 40% major in computer science. Is that a typo? As it is, I read the last phrase as "40% of the female students are majoring in CS", not "40% of the CS majors are female".
- cafard 15y agoI assume that the author means to say "40% of the majors in computer science." For what it's worth, the college's own web site says 34% female, 36% class of 2013.