Representation of women in CS: how do we measure a program's success?

Representation of women in CS: how do we measure a program's success?

This paper presents an analysis of the data on representation of women in US liberal arts computer science departments, using 10 years' worth of IPEDS data. What began as a search for departments with exemplary representation ended with the conclusion that the representation data is too unstabl...

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