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Masculine culture responsible for keeping women out of computer science, engineering

  • Written by Sapna Cheryan, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
imageIs a male culture keeping women from becoming engineers and computer scientists?Simon Fraser University - University Communications, CC BY

Many science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) areas now show a gender parity – women earn about half of the undergraduate degrees in biology, chemistry and mathematics. This, however, is not true...

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