In computer science, a growing gender gap - The Boston Globe

As a young high school teacher in 1982, Diane Souvaine leapt into graduate school for computer science having taken only one class in the subject. Computers, she believed, offered an exhilarating way to apply her math skills to real-world problems. And because computer science was coming into its own in the feminist age, she also hoped it would be more welcoming to women than her undergraduate math department. Today, Souvaine chairs the Tufts University computer science department, which has more female professors than male. But few younger women have followed in her generation's footsteps.