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>women are weeded out >especially computer science By choice or by force? N=1, but I still remember teachers saying "all the girls that should be in CS are go

>women are weeded out >especially computer science By choice or by force? N=1, but I still remember teachers saying "all the girls that should be in CS are going to math instead, they think CS is a boys' club" despite repeatedly catering 'women in tech' and such. According to some anecdotes I heard, this also changes outside Western countries, where women pick CS much more quickly. >statistics about women in STEM Actual statistics would show women aren't underrepresented in STEM as a whole, or not nearly as much as people claim. This discussion keeps being raised and they conveniently omit fields which are very much science, and have far more women than men coming in. Medicine, veterinary, agriculture, biological science are all fields women tend to compete or dominate to a certain degree. See https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/16-01-2020/sb255-higher-education-student-statistics/subjects https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/16-01-2020/sb255-higher-educatio....

pyuser583 5y ago
I wonder if all the “women in tech” programs simply serve as warning signs that there aren’t enough women in tech, and there’s a good chance a woman going into tech is going into an all boys club.
csdreamer7 5y ago
> "all the girls that should be in CS are going to math instead, they think CS is a boys' club" One of my female classmates who took an intro CS as an elective hated how the class was run. Essentially half the class was already proficient in programming and were expected to solve the problems on your own without talking. This was different than my math classes which were more likely to have female teachers and we were to work in groups to solve problems (this was how precalc was done). She said she felt scared by the expectation to already know these things before the class begun and all the silence while working.

pyuser583 5y ago

I wonder if all the “women in tech” programs simply serve as warning signs that there aren’t enough women in tech, and there’s a good chance a woman going into tech is going into an all boys club.

csdreamer7 5y ago

> "all the girls that should be in CS are going to math instead, they think CS is a boys' club" One of my female classmates who took an intro CS as an elective hated how the class was run. Essentially half the class was already proficient in programming and were expected to solve the problems on your own without talking. This was different than my math classes which were more likely to have female teachers and we were to work in groups to solve problems (this was how precalc was done). She said she felt scared by the expectation to already know these things before the class begun and all the silence while working.