Statistics on Women in Computer Science

• Computing Research Association's page on the National Research Council 1995 Report on Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science.

  Allows one to see the rankings of schools according to such factors as percentage of female students, percentage of female graduates, etc.

• Computing Research Association's page on Statistical Trends in Computer Science 1975-91

• National Science Foundation Statistical Reports

• Taulbee Surveys

• Engineering Workforce Commission Enrollment Data

• Kristina Lerman's collection of facts and figures on Women in Science and Engineering

• GVU's Gender study on WWW

• Some Entertaining Facts/Statistics on Women & Computing

  Other Sources of Statistics

  The Computer Science Pipeline:

  

  The percentage of women and men in CS&E at various stages in the pipeline in 1989-92.

  Source: J. O'Rourke, Mentor Project Targets Female Undergrads, Computing Research News, Vol. 5, No. 4, Sept. 1993, pp. 3-5.

  "The data up to master's degrees is taken from the National Science Foudnation's Jan. 1992 report, Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering: An Update. The remaining data is from the 1991-92 CRA Taulbee Survey. The two databases are not entirely compatible. The NSF data is for 1989, whereas the CRA Taulbee data is from 1991-92. NSF includes information sciences departments, and the CRA survey includes Canadian universities. At their point of overlap, the NSF data shows the Ph.D. percentage at 17%, which is shown as dashes in the figure."

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