Harvey Mudd College needs to have a class about Tina Huang, MIT class of 1993’s lawsuit against Twitter.
And then ask themselves is a tiny technical school , smaller than a high school making a dent? NO. UCLA, Berkeley, are the big guns out there for computer sciences, with UC San Diego, San Jose State, Cal Poly in both locations and UC Davis educating the BULK of CS majors along with MIT, and UIUC and UT Austin and Georgia Tech, as well as UW Seattle. What Harvey Mudd says or does is a blip on the graph and changes nothing.
Look at Facebook carefully and ask yourself why would technical women just say NO? Its run by two Harvard econ majors with banking knowledge who write books to tell younger women to LEAN IN while they rake in the dough! PLEASE Harvey Mudd understand that taking more and more girls only makes the problem more compelling as these girls land at Twitter and are the only girl in the room and do not know how to talk to boys. We need a lot more education across gender boundaries NOW at all schools including Harvey Mudd College. We need to understand male environments if we are to work in one, so gender balancing may not really help at all. How many Mudders take the highest jobs of the land in CS? The $200,000 plus jobs teaching discrete math at Georgia Tech or Any very high up Silicon Valley job? Harvey Mudd education or MIT does not matter, getting along with men is the only skill that matters in Silicon Valley right now. LIGHTEN UP on hard grading and teach girls to talk and get along with boys, whatever it takes. Ask the likes of Carley Fiorina and other female high tech formers to WRITE THE CLASS. OK, choose a more successful manager we have a lot now. Academics need to GET IN THE FIELD, aka Facebook and Twitter and then teach girls how to cope. Off soap box.