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Most of the decision has been made before they get to college. So here is a breakdown of the high school influences. “The good news is that only 4.9% depends on income and ethnicity. The rest we can influence.”
“Parental encouragement is the most impactful. And this encouragement has more impact on girls than boys.”
“Among the negative correlations, if a girl wants to have a social impact, they are less likely to go into CS.” (so, I made a point to address this in my talk; companies like Tesla and SpaceX are keenly focused on software hiring).
From the Dare2bDigital event for middle and high school girls today at Oracle. More slides below, and here is a high level summary PDF.
And the next speaker, from Oracle, agreed: "There will be 1.4 million CS jobs by 2020 and only 400 thousand computer scientists. The gap in the Bureau of Labor statistics just keeps growing."
Stanford is seeing similar trends in bio-engineering vs. CS:
Since 61% of the decision is basically pre-college, they then showed the slide above to drill into that 61%, 
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