Technically, science will be less lonely for women when girls are spurred early

"This is a national crisis," says Nancy Ramsey. Ramsey, a futurist and co-author of "The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century," http://www.amazon.com/Futures-Women-Scenarios-21st-Century/dp/0446673374 is talking about the state of women in computer science. She sounds appalled. She has every right to be.

In 2005, Ramsey, along with a fellow researcher, released a report http://anitaborg.org/files/abi_wherearethewomen.pdf for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology http://anitaborg.org/ that looked into gender imbalances in information technology. Six years later, she says, not much has changed, and the lack of women in the field is not only limiting the country’s creative and entrepreneurial output, it’s undermining the strength of our economy, and, by extension, our national security.

By Anna Holmes

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