1984 was the year that CS majors began to drop off. You're not talking about girls that were begging their parents for a C64. You're talking about girls that we

1984 was the year that CS majors began to drop off. You're not talking about girls that were begging their parents for a C64. You're talking about girls that were born circa 1962-1966 and after. Many early programmers in the 1960s and 1970s were women because it was seen as the equivalent of secretarial work, a sector of the office labor that women were confined to due to overt sexism. The profession was then masculinized in overtly sexist ways. If women fled CS, they were fleeing an overtly sexist niche (which both locked them into submissive, secretarial roles as well as undervalued their technical accomplishments). http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-%E2%80%9Ccomputer-geeks%E2%80%9D-replaced-%E2%80%9Ccomputergirls%E2%80%9D http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...