Stereotypes matter We ran an experiment to see how showing a stereotypical or nonstereotypical computer science classroom would affect girls’ interest in taking a computer science class.

Her new perspective is a victory for Girls Who Code. As part of an eight-week program with the Manhattan-based nonprofit group, Geist and 19 other high-school girls learned software programming ...

By focusing on providing positive female role models for computer science in our schools, and supporting girls and young women in their endeavors, we can send a strong message that computer ...

Less than one percent of high school girls think of computer science as part of their future, even though it's one of the fastest-growing fields in the United States today.

Girls Who Code: Teaching computer programming to young women President Obama was the first Commander-in-Chief to write a line of computer code, after learning the basics of JavaScript on Monday.

Computer Clubs Empower GirlsAlthough Ellsworth's organization, Empower Girls Inc., is only a year old, it's already succeeded at helping a few local students become comfortable in front of the ...

Diana Navarro loves to code, and she's not afraid to admit it. But the 18-year-old Rutgers University computer science major knows she's an anomaly: Writing software to run computer programs in ...

Find the best PC games for girls and women. From Sims 4 to Stardew Valley, enjoy titles offering both story, and action-packed gameplay.

Abraham Lincoln High School won a national diversity award earlier this spring because girls made up a majority of school's the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles class.

Bay High School has earned the College Board AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in Advanced Placement Computer Science A.

Girls Who Code cites that the biggest drop off of girls in computer science occurs between the ages of 13 and 17. Ott does plan to expand the grade level offerings up through 12th so that students ...

Reviews of The American Girls Premiere and contemporary articles on this sudden boom highlighted how the software industry had suddenly realized that girls played computer games.