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Thursday, March 21, 2002
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20020319/378896.html 'Geek' culture turns women off computer studies: report Number of students falls Heather Sokoloff National Post Fewer Canadian women are studying computer science despite a surge in female participation in every other scientific field, a York University researcher has found. Women make up 21% of the country's computer science undergraduates, down from a third in 1986, when the field was still relatively new. Their participation in computer science graduate studies has flatlined at about 20% over the same period, says Dr. Lorna Erwin, a sociologist who studies trends in university education....
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