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Computer science now top major for women at Stanford University

October 9, 2015 admin advocates-say, dearth, help-alleviate, hoover, hoover-tower, hopeful-sign, most-popular, paris, people-gathered, stanford, stanford-university, Technology, the-technology, university

By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Computer science has for the first time become the most popular major for female students at Stanford University, a hopeful sign for those trying to build up the thin ranks of women in the technology field. Based on preliminary declarations by upper-class students, about 214 women are majoring in computer science, accounting for about 30 percent of majors in that department, the California-based university told Reuters on Friday. If more women majored in technological fields like computer science, advocates say, that could help alleviate the dearth of women in engineering and related professions, where many practitioners draw on computer science backgrounds