rich 1.0 There was once a time — the mid-1980s, to be precise — when women were earning close to 40% of the country's undergraduate degrees in computer science. That's not gender parity, but it seems tremendous compared to where that number sat in 2014, when only about 18% of such degrees went to women. That paltry figure underscores one of the tech industry's greatest challenges: Boosting the number of women who study, and later pursue careers in, technology. TIME's Top Stories https://audioboom.com/channels/3380207-time-s-top-stories Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/23688614/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/4926264/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>