Robot Clubs Draw Girls into Science

Girls and robots go together like ... boys and robots. That's obvious, if you check in with any high school robotics club. But you will usually find many more boys in these clubs than girls, and that imbalance continues into college and beyond. Despite making up half of the world's overall workforce, women hold only a quarter of the jobs in science, technology, engineering and math, and the number of women employed in computer fields has dropped since 1990. Cyber Blue, the...

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