Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the most selective schools, the gender gap in computer science and engineering is nearly closed. skynesher/E+ via Getty Images ...

Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went ...

The share of computer science and engineering degrees going to women has increased at the most selective American universities over the past 20 years and is approaching gender parity, while the ...