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Your highly reputable source (appeal to authority) doesn't show what you claim. For the last four years, the percentage of computer-science graduates who were
by notacoward 10y ago
Your highly reputable source (appeal to authority) doesn't show what you claim. For the last four years, the percentage of computer-science graduates who were female according to their numbers is:
18.2% 17.7% 18.2% 17.9%
That's pretty darn flat, and pretty darn low. You're the one claiming an uptick. Prove it.
> Do you think there should be 50/50 parity in all professions from mining to nursing?
Of course not (strawman). However, a male:female ratio of 7:2 is a huge disparity. Few fields are so skewed. It's also remarkably inconsistent with other data - e.g. gender ratios in other STEM fields, enrollment rates, quantitative measures of ability. It's too glaring an anomaly to be passed off with a shrug.
- malandrew 10y agoI said it bottomed out in 2008/09, which is why I included that table. It then stayed flat for a few years. The rise has been seen in the last 3 years, not the last 4 years on that table which ends in 2013. If you look at data since 2013, you'll see it is rising. I'm looking around to see where I previously found figures for 2014-2016.