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...science concentrators.According to Joanne Cohoon, a research scientist at the National Center for Women & Information Technology, this trend is nothing new. Female enrollment in computer-science courses has been declining since the 1980s. The push to establish computer science as an independent discipline with specialized knowledge “hardened?? the image of computer scientists “into something stereotyped as masculine,” she said. In addition, as the number of students in the field increased, the size of the faculty could not keep up, leading some schools to set caps on the number...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gender Ratio Skewed in Comp Sci | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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