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The statistics on women entrants to computer courses in higher education have shown a worrying trend over the last few years. In spite of the numbers of women on other engineering courses increasing, albeit slowly, there has been a marked decline in the numbers of women applying to and being accepted for computing courses [Lovegrove 87, Dain 88].
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Sears, E.C.P. (1991). Encouraging Women Returners into Computing Courses in Higher Education. In: Lovegrove, G., Segal, B. (eds) Women into Computing. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3875-4_34
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