“Computer scientists” prone to ranting about the biological basis for female aversion to computer science tend not to know this.
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I suggest that’s because 95% of “computer science” isn’t science at all, and most of the nerds ranting about this have never done science.
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How's MechE, EE, CivE?
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Physics, EE, and MechE are the other three bad fields, though IIRC CS is the worst of them.
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Also clearly a fixable problem IF you try: https://qz.com/730290/harvey-mudd-college-took-on-gender-bias-and-now-more-than-half-its-computer-science-majors-are-women/ …
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Yeah but doing a db query in Rails is really hard vs say algebraic topology.
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Your periodic reminder that programming was pioneered by women. It passed parity to reach its current unequal state. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programming-used-to-be-womens-work-718061/ …
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Indeed it did, the drop off started in the mid-1980's which coincided with the growing prevalence of teenage boys with personal computers
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*cough* Engineering *cough*
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*And* the gender disparity was reversed until it started being a cash mashine it made material sense to exclude people from it.
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