[diversity] Best practice - increasing female participation in computer science

That's great, Amanda, thanks for sharing!

I think the communication concepts of changing the name of the classes 
and focusing on teamwork & collaboration are really important.

Brian

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On 16/10/2017 16:02, Amanda Gowland wrote:
> This is a fantasic best practice example of how educational institutions 
> can make changes to their programmes to be more inclusive to women:
> 
> http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/10/542638758/colleges-have-increased-women-computer-science-majors-what-can-google-learn
> 
> "Klawe — a computer scientist herself — had always been told that girls 
> weren't good at these things. "This whole idea that women lean to liking 
> doing one thing and men to doing another, it turns out I think if you do 
> the curriculum and pedagogy well that's just false," she says."
> 
> "Harvey Mudd's intro computer class became among the school's most 
> popular. And now, instead of 10 percent in any given year, the number of 
> women computer science majors ranges between 40 percent and 50 percent."
> 
> 
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