New alliance launches drive for more women in IT: girls are scarce in computer science classes, but a new coalition hopes to reverse that trend.
Publication Date: 01-AUG-07
Publication Title: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education)
Format: Online

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MORE THAN 1 MILLION computer-related jobs are going to be created by the year 2014, according to the US Department of Labor (www.dol.gov). But data from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (www.ncwit.org) shows an 80 percent decline in the number of female first-year college students who chose to major in computer science between 1996 and 2004.

Members of the newly forged K-12 Alliance (www.ncwit.org/who.all.k12.html)...



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