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100% agree. Look at the diversity of CS courses at top universities. If minorities and females are not represented there then how can you expect companies who h
by hmate9 8y ago
100% agree. Look at the diversity of CS courses at top universities. If minorities and females are not represented there then how can you expect companies who hire top talent to have them?
- crististm 8y agoMale and female representation is also a function of domain interest. Last time I checked there were not that many women applications in brick layering.
- jonathankoren 8y agoSo what changed in 1984? https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
- username90 8y agoMale interest in the field exploded when people realized that you could build things with computers and not just crunch numbers while female interest progressed in the same rate as before. After that the gender ratio in computer science aligns very well with what they have in other engineering fields, data which that article very conveniently left out.
- joelfolksy 8y agoThe attitudes of men changed? Women's attitudes wouldn't have to change at all to produce that graph.
- jonathankoren 8y agoThat doesn’t explain the NSF data. If women’s behavior was constant, then we’d see the same relative growth of women compared to women, but we don’t. Just looking at bachelor’s degrees, we see women exit the field at 2x the rate of men, and enter at lower rates as well. (% YoY men to men, women to women). https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/content.cfm?pub_id=4266&id=2 https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/content.cfm?pub_id=4...