Abstract
women already established in AI today were attracted to the subject before computers acquired their macho image. At least they had not been put off using computers whilst at school. It is too early to say whether this scenario is actually the case. What we can say is that the image of computing has reached a very low ebb amongst girl school-leavers and that this will without a doubt have a knock-on effect on the number of people choosing computing or computer-related careers. This must have an effect on the AI community if only in the fact that the pool of possible researchers will be smaller. At worst, it will starve AI research of the particular skills that women can offer. There are a number of publicity and research initiatives beginning to emerge this year in order to find both short-term and long-term solutions to the problem. These will involve finding reasons why girls are dissuaded from careers in computing, and finding ways to attract them to the subject. Ironically, one way might be to increase pupils' awareness of AI and AI techniques because this is one of the aspects of computing that is most likely to appeal to girls.
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