Recent Articles and Statistics
From EWomen
Research Papers and Official Statistics
- Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, from The National Academies Press, 2007. Can be read online, for free.
- Women in Technology 2007 Report, from WITI, May 2007. See also a preview.
- Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science & Engineering, recent statistics from NSF, February 2007
- Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001, from National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2006
- Trouble on the Horizon: ASEE's New Numbers Show Declining Enrollments, Particularly Among Women, from ASEE's PRISM Magazine, October 2006
- Women and Information Technology by the Numbers, statistics from NCWIT updated in 2006
- Special Issue on Gender Balancing Computing Education, from Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), June 2005
- Articles of Interest from CRA-W, including a report on Recruitment and Retention of Women Graduate Students in Computer Science and Engineering released in June 2000
Press Articles
- Women Lose Ground in IT, Computer Science, THE Journal, November 6, 2007
- U.S. faces competitive disadvantage from lack of women in tech jobs, ComputerWorld, September 25, 2007
- Purdue project will help attract girls to computer-related careers, Purdue University News, September 19, 2007
- Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science, LiveScience, August 27, 2007
- Teen Girls Play with Technology at IBM Camp, eWeek.com, August 17, 2007
- Why are so many women and girls dropping out of sciences and technology careers?, eGov Monitor, July 23, 2007
- How to Narrow IT's Gender Gap, ComputerWorld, May 15, 2007
- Girls Get Glimpse of Computer Science Careers, University of Toronto News, May 9, 2007
- CSE department making strides to attract women, University of Washington The Daily, May 7, 2007
- As women steer clear of computers nationwide, Tufts breaks the trend, Tufts Daily, April 25, 2007
- Women in science: Good news, bad news, Harvard University Gazette, April 19, 2007
- Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold, NY Times, April 17, 2007
- Numbers Show Big Decline of Women in IT, CIOInsight.com, March 22, 2007
- Northeastern University Junior Shatters The Computer Science Glass Ceiling For Her "CISters", Northeastern University Public Relations, March 3, 2007
- Girl Power: The Girl Scouts are Working Hard to Attract Girls to Engineering, from ASEE's PRISM Magazine, February 2007
- First Woman to Receive Turing Award, ACM press release, February 21, 2007
- Robots draw girls to science, Victoria Times Colonist, February 8, 2007
- Back to school: Getting girls into IT, in InfoWorld January 29, 2007
- Women abandoning tech jobs, from silicone.com, January 18, 2007
- Why the Number of Women in IT Is Decreasing, from ITJungle.com, January 15, 2007. A follow-up story here
- Not your mother's Girl Scouts: Science, technology programs prepare girls for higher education, in The Daily Texan Online, January 2nd, 2007
- IT Women in the industry, in The Sidney Morning Herald, November 14, 2007
- Gender Gap (in IT): Women's Paychecks Still Lag Men's, in ComputerWorld, November 13, 2006
- An interview with Linux Australia's cover girl, in ComputerWorld Australia, November 13, 2006
Other Resources
- An extensive and updated collection of News about Women and Information Technology, via CWIT
--Laura Chiticariu 14:45, 7 November 2007 (PST)
