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> I met a woman in college who literally said she was getting her MRS degree. Was she taking computer science? If we're going to talk anecdotes here, every co

• tropo 10y ago
  I can't go back and ask that woman, but my wife nearly did the same and was in fact in computer science. My wife: was capable in computer science, got through 3 years of a degree before kids interfered, was mildly interested in career prospects but very relieved to realize that I could fully support her, was mildly interested in the subject matter Had my wife taken another year to become pregnant, she'd have graduated. That would put her in your statistic as a woman who graduated but didn't end up in the field. As it is, she's in the "women who drop out of computer science" group, usually assumed to have been pushed out somehow. Actually graduating and having a career was kind of a "Plan B" thing, although my wife wasn't quite as deliberate as that other woman. I met another woman who dropped the career about a year after graduating in computer science from a near-top school. She went on leave to have a baby, then simply stayed home. She didn't need the money, so why be away from the adorable little baby? These women don't have the values that you evidently have. They aren't being pushed out. They are being pulled away by things that they value more. They don't have to comply with your value system.