HOSTILE BOYS' CLUB ENVIRONMENT: In the mid-1980s, women accounted for 30% to 40% of computer science students in the United States. Today that has dropped to about 16%, according to data cited by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
NEW YORK: New York City programmer Bana Malik was passionate about computers and mathematics from an early age, a videogames enthusiast and e-mail user way before many of her male friends.
But early in her studies at New York's Columbia University, Malik took a computer science class and felt out of place in such a male-dominated environment – a common experience for women and minorities seeking work in an industry dominated by white men.
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