Women in CS Book Club
The Women in CS Book Club provides opportunities to get to know one another in a social setting outside the classroom while exploring the book selection for the current year. This book club is open to all students, alumni, faculty & staff who identify as women.
Book selection for 2025-2026
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby
Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history's brightest female scientists.
"Rachel Swaby's no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries in science, technology, engineering, and math."--Elle
Sign Up
Sign up here to join our book club. . Members will receive information about our get-togethers via email. We will also have some copies of the 2025-2026 book available for members to sign out for the year.
Previous Books
- Data Feminism by by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
- Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg