Personnal anecdote here. I majored and graduated from two bachelors with very distinct demographic. The first one (CS) was 90%+ men, the other (language studies

Personnal anecdote here. I majored and graduated from two bachelors with very distinct demographic. The first one (CS) was 90%+ men, the other (language studies) was about 75%+ women. In the CS degree, relationship between people ranged from friendly to don’t care. Most people weren’t concerned about people that weren’t their friends in the class. All in all it was a neutral/good ambiance. In the language promotion the ambiance was awful. The class was split in various groups of 2-3 people half openly hating each other (tons of gossips going one). When a group of 4 existed, it was actually 2 groups of 2 that also disliked and bath-mouthed at any occasion. I’m sill reading the Facebook degree group sometime, and besides one year, this distrust ambiance still exists as of nowadays. So the conclusion of the paper doesn’t seem farfetched for me; it actually confirm what I experimented myself.