Reposting a comment I posted in another thread with more details. Fun anecdote: My girlfriend's mom has a double PhD in both computer science and accounting. H

Reposting a comment I posted in another thread with more details. Fun anecdote: My girlfriend's mom has a double PhD in both computer science and accounting. Her dad is also an electric engineer. She is also really good in math. She passed advanced math classes in a few months of studying. Did her algebra and got into a top school for engineering. After months of me persuading switches to SWE. Few semester after despite having top grades she drops out of CS and now does design I've asked her many times what happened and the only reply I got was: it's not for me. Given her incredible talent I find this hard to believe. I still catch her checking out CS course material and even her mom argues with her over this. She can get her a top position in SWE team at top company as she is a senior analyst there. Yet she still insists she likes graphic design more. Either we are pushing women too much to get into CS or there is something inherently wrong in this field that disallows them to get in, it might be the culture, it might be the hours, i don't know.. For her, I know for a fact the issue wasn’t that she found it too difficult, she had top grades during her last semester in CS I should also mention both the university and the company have diversity programs in place to embrace minorities. Anyways, just my own personal experience with this issue I am really baffled.