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- There is a cultural stereotype that every successful engineer, mathematician or programmer is a white male.
- Women are underrepresented in STEM fields in general and even more so in Computer Science.
- Women's overall participation in Sciences is increasing, but women's participation in computer science has been decreasing.
- National data shows that the percentage of women graduating in computer science dropped from 27% in 2002 to 18% in 2012.
- Another study showed that 77% of women declared as a computer science major switched out of this major, compared to 45% of men. Women switch out of Computer Science at a higher rate than men.
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