The low number of women working in computer science isn't just a concern for tech companies worried about the image problem of a male-dominated workforce. It's also a business challenge. So argues Wendy Hawkins, executive director of the Intel Foundation, the educational arm of Intel, where she also serves as director of philanthropy. At the opening day of a conference on promoting the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, Hawkins explained that Intel, like other Silicon Valley and high-tech firms, has "special and specific needs" in the areas of computer science and computer engineering. Those two subsets of the STEM family are something of an anomaly, marked by a widening gender gap while in other technical fields the ranks of women in the workforce have been on the rise. To read further, please visit http://www.cio.com/article/751995/Shortage_of_Female_STEM_Workers_Hurts_Tech_Industry.