Interesting stats… Pulled from the ASEE aggregator:

The New York Times (11/15, Rampell) “Economix” blog reported that a report released last week from the National Science Foundation said that more women are pursing degrees. More than fifteen percent in 1991 compared to “18.4 percent in 2010.” The number of women pursing computer science has fallen. Women were awarded close to 30 percent of computer science B.A.’s in 1991, versus 18.2 percent in 2010.

Yes! I’ll have to get a copy of this survey, as reported in Inside Higher Ed and highlighted by the ASEE aggregator:

Inside Higher Ed (11/20, Grasgreen) reported a survey conducted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers to see how its project-based curriculum impacted “students in the long term” came across “evidence that WPI’s approach to engineering education appeared to be substantially more effective for women, suggesting that a project-based curriculum may boost female success in the” STEM fields. WPI students must complete two projects. One project must address an interdisciplinary problem. The other must address “a problem in the student’s major field.” More than 60 percent of the female respondents to the survey said the curriculum “helped them understand the connections between technology and society ‘much’ or ‘very much.’”

I will have to make sure I connect with Maria Klawe when my research begins. This is from the ASEE aggregator:
In USA Today (11/2, Tadic) Nenad Tadic, a senior at Emory University wrote that, in 2005, when Maria Klawe became president of Harvey Mudd College ten percent of graduates with computer science degrees were female. By 2011, 40 percent of computer science graduates were women. Klawe said the college “fosters a collaborative and supportive environment, one that starts the minute students are enrolled.” Columbia University’s Women in Computer Science program hosts female speakers in the technology industry. Also, the program runs “a graduate-undergraduate mentorship program to aid underclassmen women in anything from study methods to applying for jobs.”