Forget tech’s bad bros: Stanford, Berkeley boost female computing grads


  • TECH
  • Sunday, 22 Apr 2018

Tammy Nguyen, a senior majoring in computer science at UC Berkeley, is photographed in a computer lab in Soda Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on Thursday, April 12, 2018. UC Berkeley and Stanford universities are increasing the number of female undergraduate students graduating with computer science/electrical engineering degrees. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

More and more women are getting computer science and electrical engineering degrees from the Bay Area's two elite universities, a goal US colleges have been pursuing for decades. 

But in the midst of the #MeToo era's focus on sexual misconduct, harassment and gender discrimination in tech, some of these young women say they're worried about what their future workplace holds. 

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