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    Colleges Have Increased Women Computer Science Majors: What Can Google Learn?

    About half of Harvey Mudd College computer science graduates are women, up sharply in the past decade. It and other schools found success by adjusting their curriculums and making other changes.
    by Laura Sydell Aug 10, 2017 2 minutes
    Harvey Mudd College students Ellen Seidel and Christine Chen work on a summer research project in computer science.

    A Google engineer who got fired over a controversial memo that criticized the company's diversity policies said that there might be biological reasons there are fewer women engineers. But top computer science schools have proven that a few cultural changes can increase the number of women in the field.

    In 2006, only about 10 percent of computer science majors at Harvey began her tenure as president of the college.

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