It occurs to me, that the one place you might see parity with the Midwest and the coasts in terms of a loss of diversity was in the composition of the graduatin

It occurs to me, that the one place you might see parity with the Midwest and the coasts in terms of a loss of diversity was in the composition of the graduating classes for compsci in 1989. I remember peeking in on one class in the Bay Area and there wasn’t a woman in sight. The majority of women I knew who were involved in programming at the time came from a background in business administration. I think it’s true that the workplaces on the coasts were decades ahead of the rest of the country (women, minorities, LGBT), but academia was still far behind in terms of inclusion like the rest of the country.