Klawe Turns Harvey Mudd College Into Haven for Women in Tech

Bloomberg News

September 25, 2011

Maria Klawe's transformation of this small liberal arts college has sent ripples from Seattle to Silicon Valley, where startups and technology giants are desperate to find talented developers, even as the unemployment rate hovers above 9 percent. In the U.S., women hold less than 25 percent of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math -- or STEM -- fields, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. On her watch, the percentage of female computer science majors at Mudd, one of California's prestigious Claremont colleges, has more than tripled, to 42 percent.

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