Does being a girl increase my chances?

[gibby]

<p>@bluebayou: Really? It’s been in the news for the last 20 years. A quick google search, yielded the following articles. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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The good news is that, slowly and steadily, as more institutions acknowledge the bias against women and initiate programs to remedy it, real change is taking place.

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<p>[Admissions</a> Calls Out to Women in Science | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/4/29/admissions-calls-out-to-women-in/]Admissions”>Admissions Calls Out to Women in Science | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

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As pre-frosh descend on campus this weekend, female prospective science concentrators have already received telephone calls from current undergraduate women in the sciences encouraging them to enroll at Harvard next fall.

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<p><a href=“http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lblum/PAPERS/women_in_computer_science.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lblum/PAPERS/women_in_computer_science.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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In 1995, the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) began an effort to bring more women into its undergraduate computer science (CS) program. At that time, just 7% (7 out of 96) of entering freshman computer science majors at Carnegie Mellon were women. Five years later, the percentage of women in the entering class had increased fivefold. In 1999, women were 38% of the incoming first-year computer science class (50 out of 130)2; in the fall of 2000, approximately 40% of the entering class were women.

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