How to get girls into tech
by By Sapna Cheryan, Allison Master and Andrew N. Meltzoff, Los Angeles Times
Sep 27, 2017
3 minutes
It is often said that women are absent from the sciences. But this is not true. Not anymore. Although a gender gap remains in the sciences overall, the gap is closing. Women are now more likely than men to earn undergraduate degrees in biology, and they are almost as likely as men to earn undergraduate degrees in chemistry and math.
There are, however, several scientific disciplines that women are still much less likely than men to choose to study: computer science, engineering and physics.
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