At a time when the demand for people with IT skills is at an all-time high, the number of U.S. information systems and computer science students has taken a nose dive. There are two phenomena influencing this trend, namely an overall decline in male enrollment in liberal arts colleges and universities and a decline in enrollment of females in technology-related majors. To remain globally compet...

The right career choice for the students entering into the professional education is critical having high impact on their professional life and future achievement. This is the turning point: it cannot be left, on intuition, preconceived notions, wild imaginations or popular concepts. A missperceived career choice directs all individual efforts and resources into wrong direction, when not aligne...

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] The Longitudinal Study of Astronomy Graduate Students (LSAGS) arose from the 2003 Women in Astronomy Conference, where it was noted that a majority of young members of the American Astronomical Society were women. The astronomy community wishes to make every effort to retain young women in astronomy, so they commissioned a lon...