document: What do you say ? Open letters to women considering a computer science major In the last decade we have both monitored with great interest the ratio of female to male computer science majors at our respective institutions . With each entering class , we think : `` Surely , now is the time when the numbers will become more balanced . '' Logic tells us that this must eventually happen , because the opportunities in computing are simply too attractive for an entire segment of our population to routinely pass up . But each year we are again disappointed in the number of women students , as they continue to be woefully under-represented among computer science majors . So , what do you say to a young woman who is considering a college choice and a choice of major in order to make computer science a more attractive option ? We have organized some thoughts on that subject into open letters
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extractive_keyphrases: women female male computer science majors
abstractive_keyphrases: computer science education gender issues