Barbie has a diverse resume \u2014 she\u2019s been a doctor, a teacher and a chef; she\u2019s raced cars for NASCAR and trained Shamu for Sea World. Now, Barbie can add computer engineer to her list of careers. But Computer Engineer Barbie is in the minority. In the real world, women earn only 18 percent of all computer science degrees, even though they represent more than 50 percent of the population on U.S. college campuses. And only 10 percent of American engineers today are women.
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