The article tries to present Stanford as relatively unique in this light — which is great for Stanford but potentially bad for the overall ecosystem. It shores that up with the vacuous statement about how it is &quot;unclear if Stanford is the only major U.S. university [...]&quot;.<p>A few minutes of online research (or perhaps an hour(s) of calls to registrars) would have resolved that. Then she could have made a concrete informative statement like &quot;[?All] of the top 10 ranked schools (via US News and World Report) have seen a significant increase in female computer science majors.&quot; and&#x2F;or &quot;MIT &amp; [...] also reported that CS is the most popular major for women.&quot;