document: Encouraging women in computer science At a cost to both their own opportunities and society 's ability to produce people with much-needed technical skills , women continue to be underrepresented in computer science degree programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level . Although some of the barriers that women face have their foundations in cultural expectations established well before the college level , we believe that departments can take effective steps to increase recruitment and retention of women students . This paper describes several strategies we have adopted at Stanford over the past decade
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extractive_keyphrases: technical skills computer science degree programs graduate level cultural expectations
abstractive_keyphrases: undergraduate level women student recruitment women student retention