The number of women receiving the bachelor’s degrees in computer science had been increasing at an exponential rate from 1970 to 1985. 1985 was the peak year where women received about 38 percent of the computer science bachelor’s degrees awarded in the United States, but in 2003, the figure was only about 28 percent. On the other hand the men’s figure receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science has increased from approximately 63 to 72 percent. This figure shows that the amount of women receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science is growing  fewer and fewer. In addition, the gender gap getting bachelor’s degrees in computer science is getting wider.

On the other hand in the case of master’s degrees, it is different from bachelor’s degrees. The gender gap in getting degrees is narrower than the bachelor’s degree. The noticeable thing is that the amount of women granted master’s degrees has been increasing at a linear rate until now. More and more women are getting their master’s degrees in the computer science.

In the case of doctorate degrees, the number of men who were granted the doctorates was rose exponentially from 1985 to 1995. But the women’s figure was completely different. Although the figure goes up and down, like the master’s degrees in computer science, the figure of women getting the doctorates has increased steadily on the whole.

The above graph shows that the gender gap in getting degrees in computer science is getting narrower with the more advanced degree. This situation will continue in the future. The more women will be want to get higher degrees and the gender gap in getting degrees in computer science will be narrower than now.