This study, covered by Wired, concluded that the proportion of women earning bachelor’s degrees in computer science at universities with Ph.D. degrees in computing should increase slightly in the next few years, but will continue to lag behind the male number. Women are earning scientific degrees in greater numbers, but not in the CS discipline. The Wired article discusses high school programs designed to encourage girls to learn coding. Some of them focus on training the teachers, which is an excellent root cause solution. Unfortunately what keeps many girls away from programming is negative cultural perceptions and those can take a long time to shift. I disliked my initial exposures to programming because it was taught as part of our math curriculum, and I do not enjoy math. So when my first computer assignments involved creating mathematical equations in lines of BASIC, I was completely turned off. To hit the broadest range of potential coders, you’ve got to show them the vast range of what programming can allow you to do. I’ve used mathematical formulas (more complex than simple arithmetic) directly only a few times in my career (for graphics calculations mostly). Coding is an art and a pleasure for me, not a mathematical chore. But I almost missed out completely.