"Microsoft camp shows technology is women's work, too".--Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 16, 2006 According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is one of two daily newspapers in Seattle, Washington, United States, the other being the Seattle Times. History The P-I, Seattle's first newspaper, was founded on December 10, 1863 as the Seattle Gazette , men outnumber women by a 3-1 ratio among Microsoft's Corporation's U.S. employees and by even more among its top executives. To try to help combat that problem, Microsoft began "DigiGirlz", a weeklong summer camp for high school girls High School Girls (女子高生 Joshi Kōsei . Microsoft hopes that "DigiGirlz" will encourage more female students to pursue careers in technology. During the week campers participate in programming lessons, see product demonstrations, tour high-tech labs, and listen to speakers. "Women represented fewer than 15 percent of people receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science and engineering in 2005 at major research universities in the U.S. and Canada, according to a Computing Research Association The Computing Research Association (CRA) is an association of more than 220 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; survey." seattlepi.nwsource.com |
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