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So what changed in 1984? https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629

• username90 8y ago
  Male 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 ago
  The attitudes of men changed? Women's attitudes wouldn't have to change at all to produce that graph.
  • jonathankoren 8y ago
    That 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...