by Dave Nagel
Women are falling further behind in information technology and
computer science, according to a new report released by the National
Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). The study, the
NCWIT Scorecard, compiled data on girls and women in computer science
and IT as students at the K-12 and post-secondary levels, as well as
women working as professionals in IT and as faculty in computer science
in higher education. It painted a fairly bleak picture of the situation
in the United States, where women make up the drastic minority of
participants in science- and technology-related studies and where that
minority shrinks further the higher one looks up the academic and
corporate ladder.