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!important; float: none;">This is a fantasic best practice
example of how educational institutions can make changes to
their programmes to be more inclusive to women: <br>
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!important; float: none;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/10/542638758/colleges-have-increased-women-computer-science-majors-what-can-google-learn">http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/10/542638758/colleges-have-increased-women-computer-science-majors-what-can-google-learn</a><br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif;
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!important; float: none;">"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."</span></p>
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!important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style:
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float: none;">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."</span></span></p>
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