document: Ten years of strategies to increase participation of women in computing programs . The Central Queensland University experience : 1999-2001 In the late eighties , the participation rate of women in information technology courses in most Australian Universities was around 25 % . This low level of women 's participation in computing courses occurs not only in Australia but also overseas . More studies indicate that the participation rates have not improved and in fact may be even further in decline . Participation rates in the workforce also appear to be in decline . Concerned at the imbalance within Australia , the Federal government directed all Australian Universities to increase the number of women in courses leading to a professional computing qualification -LRB- i.e. , information technology courses -RRB- to 40 % of students by 1995 . This paper details one Australian university 's approach , over a 10 year period -LRB- 1991-2001 -RRB- , to redress this imbalance . We provide examples of intervention strategies developed and the outcomes for these strategies . We present the outcomes against a background frame of the Australian Higher Education scene of that decade which was influenced by funding levels to universities in general and to equity programs in particular . We present data related to the participation of women in computing programs along with snapshots of the overall changing student demographics over this period
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extractive_keyphrases: central queensland university women computing programs demographics australian higher education