tl;dr > [Computers] were marketed almost entirely to men and boys. This certainly isn't a groundbreaking sentiment. There were some interesting points in the a

tl;dr > [Computers] were marketed almost entirely to men and boys. This certainly isn't a groundbreaking sentiment. There were some interesting points in the article, though: > [a study found that] families were much more likely to buy computers for boys than for girls — even when their girls were really interested in computers Which caused the men to be far ahead of women where it came down to experience with computers. I'm not too confident in the accuracy of the aforementioned study, but if the conclusion was correct, then that would certainly point towards the common "social normality pressure" explanation for women being less common in at least CS. However, it doesn't really apply in present day as almost every family has a computer, and every student entering college now had access to a PC to work on when they were a teenager.