Hewitt will also present a three-pronged programme that will aim to improve the poor image of IT as a career increase the number of work placements for school leavers and broaden recruitment to attract groups such as women who are under...
In 2002, women represented only five per cent of Yale's tenured faculty in the physical sciences and only 18 per cent of tenured faculty in the biological sciences, the petition states. President Richard Levin, throughout his tenure, has made it a...
At the top research schools, about the same number of undergraduate computer science students are women. Just 15 per cent of doctoral computer science students are women. Of particular concern, Klawe said, is the fact that the already small number...
We constantly reference the fact there are so few women in IT and yet IT's response collectively is at best weak in actually doing anything about the problem. In recent years the numbers of students sitting exams in subjects such as the sciences...
For a software developer, diving into the code at Google is a comparable experience," said Maurer, an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University who's interning at the search giant for a second summer in a row, following two summer stints at...
He said in a statement: "We found that very few of the students hold negative perceptions about the IT profession or its people. The survey suggests that many women will be attracted by the impact that IT projects have in other sectors and areas of...