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"   It&amp;#039;s a common story in the news: The United States lacks qualified women in science and technology because colleges and universities aren&amp;#039;t doing much to attract then into the programs. That&amp;#039;s not the case at Stanford University. Women make up 21 percent of students enrolled in the school&amp;#039;s prestigious computer science program.  It&amp;#039;s not a fluke, either: In 2009, Stanford revamped its CS curriculum to appeal to a wider range of students. Undergrads in the program now have the option to expand their education into multi-discipline tracks like psychology and product design. And tech-leaning female students have more support on campus than ever. For example, Symbolic Systems major Ayna Agarwal and CS major Ellora Israni founded she++ in early 2012 to introduce female students to tech professionals in Silicon Valley and beyond. The mission of she++, according to Israni, is to give women role models in the industry. &amp;quot;I think a major reason we have so few female engineers is the lack of concrete role models,&amp;quot; she said in a recent interview. Hopefully more universities will notice Stanford&amp;#039;s new approach and change that for women in colleges and universities around the world.  Want more from Meagan? Follow her on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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