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> Maybe there was once a time when there were higher ratios, but I’m not aware of them. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stop

• ghaff 5y ago
  Yeah. I agree with the article there almost certainly isn't a singular reason. But the timeline correlation to personal computers (and associated gaming) is hard to shrug off. And it makes sense. Another aspect of the same correlation is that, at the university level, computers increasingly became something you were sort of expected to have some familiarity with if you were going to major in computer science. Today, look at the intro computer science classes at most of the better schools and imagine take them never having really done any programming or serious computer use before. (And of course gender imbalance can beget gender imbalance for all sorts of reasons.)
• prepend 5y ago
  This article needs more work. Comparing Computer Science degrees to progressional programs like medical school or law school shouldn’t be done because they are very different. It seems like labor stats should be used but I can’t find BLS stats breaking out gender. These degree stats could be explained by other science degrees becoming less sexist and allowing more women (ie, computer science goes down because other science goes up). Lots of potential reasons.