document: Programmatic efforts encouraging women to enter the information technology workforce For over a decade the National Science Foundation -LRB- NSF -RRB- has been supporting projects designed to improve opportunities for women in computing . From an initial emphasis on increasing the number of women in graduate school studying computer science and engineering , NSF 's current emphasis has broadened to include research studies examining the underlying reasons why women are underrepresented in the information technology -LRB- IT -RRB- workforce . This paper describes the recent history of NSF 's activities in this area and the subsequent emergence of a research portfolio addressing the underrepresentation issue
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extractive_keyphrases: national science foundation women computing graduate school engineering history
abstractive_keyphrases: it workforce