near equality of men/women in math courses was true for me in undergrad and grad. And the smartest students: often women
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It's clearly a problem of culture that occurs pretty early on; a very tricky thing.
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I've a research project that needs funding on just this—but everyone wants to fund "yeay girls" programs, not research on why they avoid CS.
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Me: "Girls with CS skill-set pick math or bio; let's look into why." Funders: "No, let's fund another summer camp focusing on fixing girls."
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@giselaj@pinkhairedcyn I went to talk to the CS department in undergrad, was told, "oh, it's a lot of classes." Very dismissive.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@giselaj@pinkhairedcyn learning programming now at 31, excited but also pissed at how many times I was turned away.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Operations Research also has much better gender balance than CS.
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At this point, most anything has better gender balance than CS; it's clearly linked to cultural trends.
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@gershonmarx At this point, I'd love introductions to potential funders. Also: Not a penny of funding would go to me. It goes to post-docs. -
zeynep @ technosociology dot org. I honestly thought it'd be easier to convince big funders & corporations. Still working but..
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