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back in the late 80s MIT changed their admissions criteria to drastically increase the number of women in incoming classes. if they don't unwind back to there,

back in the late 80s MIT changed their admissions criteria to drastically increase the number of women in incoming classes. if they don't unwind back to there, they aren't really reviewing the experiments they've conducted. (perhaps in today's world, we'd see more women naturally; but the gender imbalance in the STEM workforce suggests that there is something to look at, at least if you believe in science. this stuff is important and there should be transparency.)

ghaff 3y ago
In part, MIT increasingly emphasized fields beyond straight engineering (and CS that didn't involve hardware was becoming more important as well). But, yes, MIT definitely tilted towards having more more women (which was about 1:7 in the late 70s) and changed significantly over the next couple of decades.