Researchers Study Software Gender Gap

September 23, 2007 By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- For more than a decade, academics and technology executives have been frowning at the widening gender gap in computer science. Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed to attract many more women.

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