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The Women's High Tech Coalition was formed recently to (1) educate on the latest developments in technology and surrounding policy issues, and (2) provide networking opportunities for individuals, particularly women, with responsibilities either on the technical development or policymaking government side of this new industry...

This is a place to find a network of women in EECS.

Girl Tech isn't the only company to capitalize on girls' need to communicate with each other on some websites that are popular with girls, Motorola and Cybiko are touting their own popular two-way messaging gadgets in translucent colors. In fact, it has become conventional wisdom among market researchers and academics alike that girls, more than boys, tend to use technology as a tool for communication...

Are women discriminated against in the lab? Or are gender imbalances due to intellectual differences?

MentorNet would like to announce that its 1999-2000 program evaluation reports are now available on the web site. One report summarizes analysis of MentorNet-provided and Ithaca Evaluation Group (IEG)-acquired data. The principal data collection method was a web-administered questionnaire completed by mentors and students in the spring. Results include assessments of mentoring relationships' content and value of email exchanges, identification of the most valuable outcomes of the mentoring experience, and suggestions for program improvement.
MentorNet is committed to evaluation as a key component of the program since program evaluation leads to program improvement. By actively soliciting opinions, suggestions, comments, praise, and recommendations from the mentors and the protgs, we learn what is working, and what is not.
The second report is produced by Quality Evaluation Designs and reports on surveys filled out by students who participated in the 1998-99 program a year after they had completed the program. This additional evaluation report focuses on the long-term effects of participation and retention.

The annual freshman survey conducted by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute showed increasing familiarity of entering students with computers. 78.5% of freshman entering college in 2000 were regularly using computers in the year prior to college entrance, compared to 68.4% in 1999 and 27.3% in 1985...