Representation of women in postsecondary computing 1990–2013: Disciplines, institutional, and individual characteristics matter

This paper reports the results of an in-depth study of two decades of data from the IPEDS database, to examine trends in the participation of women in postsecondary academic computing programs at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level. Emphasis is placed on determining differences among the various disciplines within the computing field, and differences based on institutional and citizenship/ ethnicity characteristics.