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This is also true of MIT. http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/gender/index.html http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/gender/index.html According to the article "I
by avivo 11y ago
This is also true of MIT. http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/gender/index.html http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/gender/index.html
According to the article "It was unclear if Stanford is the only major U.S. university where computer science is the top major for female students."
That link was the top hit for https://www.google.com/search?q=mit+women+enrollment https://www.google.com/search?q=mit+women+enrollment
This is a pretty sad thing to see in something purporting to be journalism. I can't blame the really writer though. They probably only had 30 minutes to get something out the door to drive their view count...
- lancewiggs 11y agoSure the journalist could do that search for every university - but why would she start with MIT? She (Sarah McBride from Reuters, not a click-bait agency) also talked to UCLA and Harvey Mudd, both Californian schools and on her beat (as a SF-based journalist). Harvey Mudd had a reputation for high female enrolment in STEM and was a more logical first call than MIT, on the other coast.
- avivo 11y agoThe article tries to present Stanford as relatively unique in this light — which is great for Stanford but potentially bad for the overall ecosystem. It shores that up with the vacuous statement about how it is "unclear if Stanford is the only major U.S. university [...]". A few minutes of online research (or perhaps an hour(s) of calls to registrars) would have resolved that. Then she could have made a concrete informative statement like "[?All] of the top 10 ranked schools (via US News and World Report) have seen a significant increase in female computer science majors." and/or "MIT & [...] also reported that CS is the most popular major for women."