Computer Science professor Dianne P. O'Leary's insightful discussion of the chilly climate for women in computer science. The discussion is arranged as a series of questions, such as whether women are less talented in computer science, why so few women enter the field and why so many who do enter do not stay, what makes the environment chilly, and what can be done at the faculty level and throughout the curriculum, from beginning courses to graduate education.

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is Camp's paper describing the increase and then long term tend of decline in the percentage of women majoring in CS over the last 20 years. She also has some hypotheses as to the influence of the "School of Engineering effect" on those numbers.

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Article by Jane Cottrell in which she discusses possible reasons for the underrepresentation of women in computer science faculties and why this underrepresentation is cause for concern.

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