We'll never be able to change the startup gender ratio until more women get into computer programming at a young age. But what's it actually like to learn computer science as a teenage girl? The New York Observer got eight high schoolers to share their stories.

Last week, Harvard celebrated a record number of female students declaring a computer science major. But the school — and the field — may still have a ways to go.

I once wrote the football results in the middle of a literature paper to see if the teacher was really reading it. This guy included Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up in acrostic form. Updated.

Last year was the first year ever that more PhDs went to women than men. Now will academia eventually reflect the shifting paradigm?

Is the "geeky" image of computer science turning women off to the field? A new scientific study thinks so - but are the forces creating the gender gap in technology really just the perception of comic books and video games?

Few women are going into computer science, and it may be because of the stereotype of the masculine, gamer geek. Upon stepping into a "stereotypical" workspace, women are likely to feel discouraged and think "I do not belong here." [EurekAlert]

Thanks to the tipster who let us know that Barbara Liskov, the first woman to earn a PhD in computer science, has been awarded the Turing Award, described as the "Nobel Prize in computing."