RECRUITING WOMEN & GIRLS TO TECHNOLOGY
Women are under-represented in technological fields. In computer
programming, the percentage of women is approximately 35 percent in
the workplace, and 18 percent in post-secondary institutions. In middle
school and high school computer classes, girls tend to be the minority.
As more and more jobs require technological competence, this trend can
mean a loss of income for individual women at work and a loss of a huge
pool of intellectual resource for the nation. ...more
August 2000
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