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Government initiatives in the late 1980’s to increase the number of places for computer science students in UK universities at this time of economic stringency is continuing evidence of the current and predicted shortage of computer scientists in industry and commerce. The demand for computer science graduates is still such that many of them are in a position to pick and choose between jobs offers from the most prestigious software houses and industry, despite increasing economic stringency. There has been much press coverage of Government reports stressing the increasing need for such graduates so that students applying for computer science degree courses are still assured of excellent employment prospects when they graduate. The Butcher Report [Butcher 85] highlighted the IT skills shortages and stresses the fact that IT companies cannot afford to ignore the intellectual resources offered by women at a time of growing skill shortages and declining school and university populations: this is still relevant.
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Lovegrove, G., Hall, W. (1991). Where Are the Girls Now?. In: Lovegrove, G., Segal, B. (eds) Women into Computing. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3875-4_7
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