EDUCATION FORUM W h e r e H a v e all t h e W o m e n Gone? 1 Where have all of the women gone? Some of us can remember years when computer science courses were quite well-populated with women. Indeed, one of our faculty at M o n t a n a State University is certain t h a t the enrollment was about 40% women here at one point early in the '80s. Now we are lucky to have a handful of women in our introductory courses, and only a few in the upper division courses. Apparently, this phenomenon is mirrored across the country: a quick glance at the last three SIGCSE Conference proceedings reveals paper and panel titles such as "Where Have all the Women Gone and How Do We Keep T h e m fl'om Going?" (1995), "Gender Issues" (1996), and "Gender Imbalance in Computer Science Programs, Etiology and Amelioration2: Views fl'om U.S. Campuses and Elsewhere" (1997). In the 1997 panel just cited, the moderator states " . . . I ' v e watched with growing alarm the drop in enrollment in our Computer Science programs from a ratio
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Education forum: Where Have all the Women Gone?
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