Women Studying Computer Science at the Open University

Women Studying Computer Science at the Open University of Israel Judith Gal-Ezer, Tamar Vilner, Ela Zur The Open University of Israel galezer, tami, ela@cs. openu. ac. il SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

The Open University CS Program l l l Distance learning university Open admission policy High academic level First math courses - calculus, linear algebra, discrete mathematics etc. First CS course - CS 1 SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

Computer Science Graduates l No. of students: 818 SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

Enrolling statistics CS 1 (n = 18, 426) Math courses (n = 15, 389) Male 78% 83% Female 22% 17% SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

CS 1 – enrollments SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

Success in CS 1 Enrollments Female Failure 14, 296 6088 8208 (78%) Male Success (43%) (57%) 4, 130 1259 2871 (22%) (30%) (70%) SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

Success in CS 1 SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

Success in the first Math courses Enrollments Success Male Failure 3783 8954 (83%) Female 12, 737 (30%) (70%) 2, 652 627 2025 (17%) (24%) (76%) SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

Success in advanced courses in CS (no significance) SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

Graduation of CS versus CS+Management CS CS + Management Male 678 (83%) 297 (73%) Female 140 (17%) 111 (27%) 818 408 Total SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO

Summary l. About 20% of the CS students are women; l. About 17% of the CS graduates are women; l. About 27% of the CS+Mang. are women; l. Success in the advanced courses is equal. SIGCSE 2005 St. Louis, MO