document: An ACM-W literature review on women in computing The pipeline shrinkage problem for women in computer science is a well-known and documented phenomenon where the ratio of women to men involved in computing shrinks dramatically from early student years to working years . During the last decade , considerable research ensued to understand the reasons behind the existence of the shrinking pipeline and in some cases to take action to increase the numbers of women in computing . Through the work of a National Science Foundation funded project , ACM 's Committee on Women in Computing -LRB- ACM-W -RRB- has taken a first step towards pulling this research together . A large number of articles was gathered and processed on the topic of women in computing and the shrinking pipeline . The committee created a publicly available online database to organize the references of this body of work by topic , author , and reference information . The database , constantly being updated , is accessible through ACM-W 's website < http://www.acm.org/women > . A final report is also available via the ACM-W Web site which covers current statistics on women in computing , summaries of the literature in the database , and a set of recommendations . The article is a brief synopsis of a subset of the literature review as of August 2001
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abstractive_keyphrases: acm-w literature review acm committee on women in computing