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From what I've been told, CS was a pretty balanced industry in terms of gender until the dot-com bubble, where it became very heavily male-skewed and hasn't rec
by jcranmer 5y ago
From what I've been told, CS was a pretty balanced industry in terms of gender until the dot-com bubble, where it became very heavily male-skewed and hasn't recovered since.
- dralley 5y agoIt started a little earlier than that, but yes.
- dboreham 5y agoThe change came about when it became possible to have your own computer (VIC-20, Spectrum, etc). This put computers into the hands of teenagers. Relatively few female teenagers wanted to spend all their waking hours hacking assembler. This meant that the intake to CS undergrad programs became dominated by young men who had been programming for 10 years already. The women who did take CS were now at a large disadvantage in terms of experience.