While many schools struggle to increase the numbers of women in computer science, this article reports they are flocking to statistics and are well-represented in that field.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/women-flocking-to-statistics-the-new-hot-high-tech-field-of-data-science/2014/12/19/f3e2e486-62ed-11e4-9fdc-d43b053ecb4d_story.html