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How not to stem girls’ interest in technology | Thoughts on Public Education

How not to stem girls’ interest in technology | Thoughts on Public Education

How not to stem girls’ interest in technology - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

For the past decade, women have outnumbered men on college campuses; they earned 57 percent of bachelor’s and 61 percent of master’s degrees in 2008. And yet the percentage of women in computer engineering has sharply declined for two decades, and women remain a distinct minority in most science, engineering and technical fields. The exception [...]