Cornell Tech, The City University of New York (CUNY), and Verizon Communications recently announced a new tech initiative targeting young women in the undergraduate- and graduate-school pipeline. The goal of this initiative is to increase the number of women working in technology. The National Center for Education Statistics report that, although the number of women attending college has increased, the percentage of women who graduate with degrees in technology-related disciplines is less than 1%, and the percentage of computer-science degrees earned by women has decreased by 19% in the past 30 years. The Women in...
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