As the technology sector works to solve its diversity problem it must grapple with a puzzle: why fewer women studying computer science?
Today, less than 20 per cent of computer science graduates in the US are female, compared with more than a third in the mid-1980s.
“You don’t see the same gender disparity in other in other sciences as you do in computer science,” says Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, a non-profit organisation that runs after-school clubs across the US for girls up to 12th grade (age 18). “There’s much more gender parity in biology or [maths] than in computer science.”
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