[diversity] Best practice - increasing female participation in computer science

This is a fantasic best practice example of how educational institutions 
can make changes to their programmes to be more inclusive to women:

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/10/542638758/colleges-have-increased-women-computer-science-majors-what-can-google-learn

"Klawe — a computer scientist herself — had always been told that girls 
weren't good at these things. "This whole idea that women lean to liking 
doing one thing and men to doing another, it turns out I think if you do 
the curriculum and pedagogy well that's just false," she says."

"Harvey Mudd's intro computer class became among the school's most 
popular. And now, instead of 10 percent in any given year, the number of 
women computer science majors ranges between 40 percent and 50 percent."

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