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Winblad: Female computer science graduates dropped from 20% to 13%

Anne Winblad · a16z Podcast | Demystifying Venture Capital · Jan 2, 2019 · at 25:19

Anne Winblad, partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, discusses gender trends in technical education pipelines.

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“It's going down for women. It was like, you know, 20%, and now it's like 13%.”

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The percentage of computer science undergraduate majors in the United States who are women declined from approximately 20% to around 13%.

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Anne Winblad's statement accurately captured the documented decline in female participation in undergraduate computer science programs leading up to 2014. According to National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) IPEDS data, the percentage of CS bachelor's degrees conferred to women nationally declined from 20.5% in 2005–06 to a low of 17.6% in 2007–08 and 2010–11 (remaining at 18.0% in 2013–14). Furthermore, data from the Computing Research Association (CRA) Taulbee Survey, which tracks North American doctoral-granting research institutions, showed female CS bachelor's degree attainment fell to approximately 12.9%–13% in 2012, a widely cited metric across the tech industry at the time.

NCES Digest of Education Statistics Table 325.35 recorded women receiving 20.5% of CS bachelor's degrees in 2005–06, dropping to 17.6% in 2007–08 and 18.0% in 2013–14.
The 2012 Computing Research Association (CRA) Taulbee Survey reported that women earned approximately 12.9% to 13% of CS bachelor's degrees at PhD-granting research universities.

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