Nevertheless, She Persisted: An intervention to increase women’s persistence intentions in CS
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Gender stereotypes about women’s computing ability contribute to the dearth of women in computing by causing women to experience gender bias. These gender stereotypes are doubly disadvantaging to women because they create gender diferences in self-assessments of computing ability, decreasing the likelihood that women will persist in Computer Science (CS). This is because students need to believe they have sufcient ability in a feld in order to pursue it as a career. This talk presents an intervention to increase women’s persistence intentions in CS.