How to pronounce“cheryan”in English

Cheryan postulates a similar theory to explain why the percentage of women studying computer science has fallen since the mid-1980s.

What Cheryan's research reveals is that many girls just don't think they would feel comfortable in such a class.

As Cheryan herself suggests, requiring all students to take computer science not only would change the stereotype as to who does or doesn't take such classes,

But as Cheryan points out, the stereotypes are, at best, only partially true, and women who actually take classes in computer science

Over and over, Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are significantly more interested enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom, whether virtual or real-- so

In another experiment, Cheryan and her colleagues arranged for female undergraduates to talk to an actor pretending to be a computer science major.

In fact, Cheryan's research shows that young men tend not to major in English for the same reasons most women don't major in computer science.

For the past six years, Sapna Cheryan, who's a psychology professor at the University of Washington, has been studying why girls in high school

The importance of what Cheryan calls an ambient sense of belonging proves equally strong with female college

As an added benefit, Cheryan's research on the effects of stereotypes and what she calls an ambient sense of belonging on career choices

And so I was very careful to say, and Cheryan is very careful to say, we want to keep that, and respect those people.