[this is a repost from my posterous. i have yet to decide properly which type of content will sit where. sorry for the dupe.]

Brown shipped off a bunch of my good friends and workmates from the Brown CS TA scene to Seattle this summer. For once it was a group of computer scientists within which a healthy proportion (I’m guestimating about half, but I sadly wasn’t out there… this year) were female.

The article is a bit disingenuous when it groups rising Juniors and rising Seniors into one group of ‘juniors’ but is nevertheless worth a read. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/aug10/08-13browninterns.mspx…

We’re sadly in no way this equally balanced within CS at Brown in general but within the TAing group they are much better represented percentage-wise.

Its a nice article to see but it still annoys the hell out of me that the situation is remarkable enough to be written about.