The stubbornly low number of female computer science students in the United States has generated a pile of academic studies, ample hand-wringing and a wide-ranging discussion in tech and education … ...

UCLA scholar Jane Margolis has spent four years tracking male and female computer science students. She says the gender gap has not gone away--but she has ideas for closing it.

Voices of authority or menace tend to be male: the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the computer program in “WarGames,” or Auto, the spaceship’s autopilot function ...

The report lays out a blueprint to double the number of female Internet users in developing countries in the next three years, to 1.2 billion from the current 600 million.

Why are so many computer voices female? One reason is biology. Scientific studies have shown that people generally find women's voices more pleasing than men's.

Female computer engineering students obtain better grades than their ... "women tend to choose courses relating more to developing applications and user interaction, i.e., 'from the computer ...

To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual “assistant.” ...