TL;DR<p>1. split intro course into one class for students with no prior programming experience and one for students with prior experience.<p>2. send about 65, including 25 first year, female students to a conference geared towards women in technology.<p>3. encourage female students to apply for early research opportunities.<p>4. match female computer scientist mentors with female students.<p>Interesting comment in original article:
<i>So to summarize you use special treatment to remedy a gender imbalance because you feel better if you have an equal number of male and female students in any given major. What majors have more women than men and what is being done to remedy those?</i>