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Women's Studies Numerous researchers have examined the issue of why women/girls tend to stay away from technological fields. A few good articles are identified below as well as sites with links to many other resources. The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline: An examination of exactly how many women pursue advanced degrees in Computer Science fields and how the number has decreased as well as the percentage of women. Why Girls Don't Compute: An overview of opinions why girls do not pursue careers in Computer Science fields. Creating More Women Coders: Information about the potential harm to the IT profession if more women don't enter IT fields; also discussion about efforts at Carnegie Mellon to attract more women to Computer Science. Links to some studies. Mentions increasing confidence and applying computer science to real life as ways to attract women to computing courses. The Sexes... and the Net: Summary of differences between how men and women use the Internet and a discussion of how the population of women on the net is growing and changing. Information is taken from published studies referenced in the article.   Links ACM's Committee on Women in Computing: ACM stands for the Association of Computing Machinery and is one of the top organizations for Computer Science. This is the home page for the committee dedicated to women in technology. Pew Internet and American Life: An initiative of the Pew Research Center to fund studies on the impact of the Internet on society and people. Do a search on the word "women" (no quotes) to get a list of reports already published. Reports are in PDF format. These links also appear in the searchable links directory.

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