Recruiting and Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing Majors

This 5-page article, written by J. McGrath Cohoon of the University of Virginia, provides methods for increasing female participation in undergraduate computer science. A number of specific recommendations are made, including working directly with high school teachers and guidance counselors, developing relationships with community colleges, and recruiting first and second year students from within your university. This article originally appeared in the SIGCSE Bulletin in 2002.