My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer
The key quote: "It is also very intimidating to take classes where it seems like most people know all the material already and have been programming since middle school or earlier..."<p>The key to getting more females in CS is to expose them to programming in middle school or earlier.<p>Jean put her finger on why recruiting females for CS at the college level is so difficult: if they are starting programming in college (or even high school) when most of the class has been programming for years, they are <i>way</i> behind on the learning curve and have a daunting task to catch up.