Women in Computer Science
Josh Kurtz
Issue date: 1/11/08 Section: News
"[In China,] we are told, if a boy can do it, a girl can also do it," Cai said.
Women professors in the country have taken a leadership role in the subject as well, Cai said.
According to the Boston Globe, the image of computer science as male-dominated also may have hurt the number of women in the field.
The Boston Globe wrote that educators did not feel the need to go against the popular image of computer science as a male-dominated field because the major was so popular in the 1980s.
Also, this perception could have hurt the amount of women enrolled in the major down the road, according to the article.
Drexel has a chapter of the Women in Computing Society, for which Cai serves as the advisor for this group. The organization holds activities at least once per month.
The Society has sent students to events at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Grace Hopper celebration of Women in Computing, among other trips.
"I think [the Society] is really good for the students. … The events really broaden the students' horizons," Cai said.
The Drexel chapter of the Society currently has approximately 20 student members.
Women professors in the country have taken a leadership role in the subject as well, Cai said.
According to the Boston Globe, the image of computer science as male-dominated also may have hurt the number of women in the field.
The Boston Globe wrote that educators did not feel the need to go against the popular image of computer science as a male-dominated field because the major was so popular in the 1980s.
Also, this perception could have hurt the amount of women enrolled in the major down the road, according to the article.
Drexel has a chapter of the Women in Computing Society, for which Cai serves as the advisor for this group. The organization holds activities at least once per month.
The Society has sent students to events at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Grace Hopper celebration of Women in Computing, among other trips.
"I think [the Society] is really good for the students. … The events really broaden the students' horizons," Cai said.
The Drexel chapter of the Society currently has approximately 20 student members.
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Sam
posted 1/11/08 @ 11:12 AM EST
Who cares? There are plenty of female computer science majors in India and China where this work is going.
Woman in the U.S. need to prepare for the "new, higher value jobs" that the globalists assure us are coming as a result of oursourcing all of this mundane computer science stuff. (Continued…)
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