Four years ago, boys outnumbered girls 4-to-1 in Duval County high school computer classes. Today those classes have three boys for every two girls, a nearly 60-40 ratio. Clearly, more girls are ...

When anyone asks Wendy Guo why she’s passionate about getting more women involved in computer science, she points to the invention of the airbag. “The example I always give comes from the auto ...

During the 2011-12 school year, a student at Sweetwater High School in National City, Calif., approached teacher Art Lopez and asked why their school didn’t offer any computer science courses. Lopez ...

Just six percent of high school students in the United States take computer science classes. The numbers are even lower for elementary and middle school. But you’d never know that if you dropped by ...

Joint Offering Will Provide Cybersecurity Training to Girls Around the World Although there is a global shortfall of more than four million cybersecurity professionals today,1 just a quarter (24%) of ...

When I began Cyber Girls First (CGF) in 2014, the figures produced by the industry showed that out of the total employees in the computer and cyber workforce, 8% were women. Eleven years later, the ...

The gender gap in computer science and other STEM fields is significant. That much is known. But what can be done about it? A Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology professor is using a Fulbright ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

“I remember walking into one of the classes at Stanford and just deciding not to take the class because I was one of only three women there, and I just felt so intimidated,” recalled Catherina Xu, one ...

Families in Savannah with middle-school-aged students have a free camp option to consider this summer. Girls Code Savannah is offering a free camp at the Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus, ...