Mills College program for girls to enter computer science

Over at Mills College, Ellen Spertus runs a Interdisciplinary Computer Science program.  Women who have a bachelor's degree in a field other than computer science who want to get into CS or interdisciplinary work can enter the program.  The San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote a great article about the program and the opportunities that it presents for women who realize later that they actually want to do computer science (and Ellen has her own notes) .  I was lucky to start in CS and then move into the social sciences but i'm very very very thankful that i have a background in CS and it was deeply frustrating to see how few women were involved in the field.

Update: Meri Williams notes: "In a similar vein, there's a really interesting programme run by the Year In Industry in the UK to encourage women returning to work to consider Science, Engineering & Technology careers."