论文标题
一所大型研究的计算机科学性别多样性
Gender Diversity in Computer Science at a Large Research University
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论文摘要
随着计算机科学（CS）工作的数量，对计算机科学毕业生的需求比以往任何时候都要多。同时，全国大多数CS部门仅在班上看到25％至30％的女学生，这意味着我们未能从大部分人口中引起兴趣。在这项工作中，我们使用三个跨越5个学年的学生探索CS的性别差距。通过结合这些数据集，我们可以探索许多问题，例如随着学生在CS专业的发展。例如，我们发现，参加专业的CS1入门课程的女性很大一部分不打算主修CS，这会导致CS1之后的性别差距大大增加。这一发现表明，保留任务的很大一部分是吸引这些妇女进一步探索专业。我们在大学的CS系的背景下报告了三个研究领域的发现：CS环境，学生的计算背景以及学生的成绩。这些发现也可能适用于其他大型公共研究大学的计算计划。
With the number of Computer Science (CS) jobs on the rise, there is a greater need for Computer Science graduates than ever. At the same time, most CS departments across the country are only seeing 25 to 30 percent of female students in their classes, meaning that we are failing to draw interest from a large portion of the population. In this work, we explore the gender gap in CS at a large public research university, using three data sets that span thousands of students across 5 and a half academic years. By combining these data sets, we can explore many issues such as retention as students progress through the CS major. For example, we find that a large percentage of women taking the Introductory CS1 course for majors do not intend to major in CS, which contributes to a large increase in the gender gap immediately after CS1. This finding implies that a large part of the retention task is attracting these women to further explore the major. We report findings in three areas of research in the context of the CS department at our university: the CS environment, the computing background of our students, and the students' grades. These findings may also be applicable to computing programs at other large public research universities.
