UW News
Molly McElroy
August 24, 2015
To get girls more interested in computer science, make classrooms less ‘geeky’
Women lag behind men in the lucrative computer science and technology industries, and one of the possible contributors to this disparity is that they’re less likely to enroll in introductory computer science courses. A new study of 270 high school students shows that three times as many girls were interested in enrolling in a computer…