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>In college there were basically no women in any of my classes, like 1 or 2 in a class of 30-40 In high school, about half my AP CS class was girls, I think.
by perl4ever 6y ago
>In college there were basically no women in any of my classes, like 1 or 2 in a class of 30-40
In high school, about half my AP CS class was girls, I think.
Maybe it's not so much that "an entire gender" is disinterested but that there was a tidal wave of people who wanted to get into programming after 2000 who were mostly male and changed the culture? And a lot of people, who were good at other things besides computers, said yuck and did something else.
It's easy to assume that when a group dominates a field that they must be better on average at the required skills, but it could be more a result of their lack of other skills.
- solresol 6y agoI don't think it's a post-2000s thing. In a year where hundreds graduated with a CS degree, I think there might have been around 15 females in my year (1994). My brother did CS as well (mid-1980s). There might have been only one female in his year. There might have been more, but he never spoke about them that I can remember. I suspect the gender bias has been around for a long time.
- jmalicki 6y agoIt fell in the mid 80s, then again in the 2000s. https://images.techhive.com/images/idge/imported/article/ctw/2013/04/04/women2-100386539-orig.jpg https://images.techhive.com/images/idge/imported/article/ctw... There has been a gender bias, but it has been getting progressively worse over time.