Evening, Came across this article earlier in the day, then stumbled into mjg59's LJ entry on debian-women. I thought people here might find it an interesting read... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/15/women_it_maths_mandatory/ Choice quotes: ``it seems that restricting the choices available to adolescents, and making it mandatory for all pupils to study maths and science subjects throughout their secondary education, correlates with a higher proportion of women going on to study computer science at university.'' ``As other research has repeatedly shown, choices made during adolescence are more likely to be made on the basis of gender stereotypes, so we should push off choice until later.'' Cheers, /Liyang (not subscribed, btw)
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