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This summarized my view as well. If you plot the share of women's majors over time, computing's decline coincides with an increase in medical and law school enr
by manfredo 8y ago
This summarized my view as well. If you plot the share of women's majors over time, computing's decline coincides with an increase in medical and law school enrollment. If, say, a woman wanted to be a doctor or lawyer but knew society wouldn't respect women in these roles and chose computing instead, was that a good thing? I'd say no.
I like to joke with people, there is an extremely simple way of solving the gender gap in tech: universities can just mandate that a certain percentage of women major in computing related fields. Just select 30% of women by lottery and forbid them to choose a major other than computing related ones. Of course, most reasonable people are against such a measure.
- gammateam 8y agoI'm all for facetious humor but this is a bad joke for this thread
- manfredo 8y agoPerhaps "joke" is the wrong term, it's more of a thought exercise. The point is to illustrate the fact that equal representation at the expense of agency is not a good thing - which absolutely is relevant to the discussions going on in this thread.
- repolfx 8y agoIt's not a joke or even a thought experiment. The Soviet Union basically did exactly that and had >50% female participation in CS courses.