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For point 2, that's what they said about medicine, law, pretty much any other male-dominated field you can name. Even if there's a difference in interest among

For point 2, that's what they said about medicine, law, pretty much any other male-dominated field you can name. Even if there's a difference in interest among adults, why should that difference in interest be due to genetic factors rather than cultural differences in how we raise boys vs girls and how teens are peer pressured? Edited to add: by the way, back in the 50s and 60s, computer programming was female-dominated.

tomp 10y ago
That's actually not true. There is a graph that's often used to support this point [1]. But using a better graph, we can see that CS is in line with engineering (CS is definitely more "engineering" than it is "science") [2]. [1] https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/10/21/womencoding_wide-4b0beb106fe1b4cfabd9799accb65e8ef8097473.jpg?s=1400 https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/10/21/womencoding_wide... [2] https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/7/005/06b/02d/33fe648.jpg https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/7/005/06b/02d/33fe648.jpg