Philipp Birken<p>Also, half of them are women, which is much better than the averages in natural sciences (not to speak of engineering). The main reason for this is that the program taps into Bachelor programs with a large number of women, Biology for example.</p><p>My opinion today is that this is a very interesting strategy to increase the number of women in tech. Most talk is about trying to get the numbers in, say, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering up (which are abysmal). But there is the much lower hanging fruit of looking at programs with a large number of women, and to then increase the amount of programming and mathematical skills that these students learn.</p><p>2/3</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GenderinTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenderinTech</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ComputationalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputationalScience</span></a></p>