What can I do to increase the ratio of women in CS&#x2F;Engineering?<p>As the parent of a teenage boy and pre-teen girls here is what I do&#x2F;can do.<p>Start&#x2F;Coach&#x2F;Mentor a FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Team for your teenager. I coach an FTC team.<p>Start&#x2F;Coach&#x2F;Mentor a FIRST Lego League (FLL) Team for your pre-teen kids. I am in the process of forming an FLL team.<p>Have them recruit their friends&#x2F;classmates into the team.<p>It can be a mixed gender team or all girls team.<p>Training to compete in these events force you into being part of a team, apply STEM principles learned in school into actual practical engineering applications. Build Robots and have fun doing so.<p>The FLL teams eventually feed into FTC or FRC teams.<p>I think this will give them very early experiences into what engineering is all about and give them the confidence to take up these streams in later life.<p>What is important is that at the earlier ages they are not yet peer pressured into gender specific expectations and is exposed to these topics in a positive way.