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Sparkle Geforce FX 5500 10 StarTech 2 Port Ultra Compact PC Switcher (KVM) 11 Plextor 504-UF External DVD Writer + DVD Media Guide 12 Hard Drive Noise Reduction Random (No Picture) 13 Molex Radial Fin Cooler (Date: 27/Jun/00) 14 Forums 15 copy cat ammo box project (14) 16 Computer in a Stella Keg 17 Grill mesh 18 Cold Cathode 19 Another TV-Out Problem! When I decided on Computer Science as my chosen degree discipline, it went without saying that I'd be entering a course where men far, far outnumbered women. Having spent the previous seven years in an all girl school this wasn't an entirely unappealing prospect. Now, this isn't to say the male female ratio on computing courses was my primary reason for choosing one. The reality of the situation is that although information technology is becoming a more "acceptable" industry for women to work in, the number of women entering higher education to study computer related disciplines is declining steadily and has been since the early 1980s. Hold tight, here comes the statistical bit but I'll make it brief. Even though the number of students commencing computing courses each year continues to grow, the number of female entries is falling. In the late 1970s, a quarter of all computing degrees in the UK were awarded to women where as these days only around 12-15% go to females. I should point out that the actual numbers of female computing graduates per year is declining, not just the percentage. I walked into my very first computer science lecture fully expecting to be in the minority but I never anticipated just how much in the minority I was actually going to be. I believe that at the beginning of my first year, around 15 of 150 or so undergraduates on the straight computer science degree were female. That was a little intimidating to say the least but at least there weren't too many pale, photophobic potbellied stick men about. Now, half way through the second year I struggle to think of 5 other girls who've made it this far on the CS (computer science) course. The rest just faded away throughout the first year including one young, exceedingly tall, blonde and shapely girl from Sweden whose disappearance was mourned by the lads for months afterwards. Of course many of the guys also left, I just happened to notice the female proportion dropping most obviously.
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