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A welcoming introductory class coaxed Katie Seyboth into a computer science major at Tufts University. The National Science Foundation is trying to attract women back into the field.

In computer science, a growing gender gap

Women shunning a field once seen as welcoming

By Marcella Bombardieri
Globe Staff / December 18, 2005

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MEDFORD -- As a young high school teacher in 1982, Diane Souvaine leapt into graduate school for computer science having taken only one class in the subject. (Full article: 1846 words)

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