"Computer science is an unusually unforgiving discipline, and it takes an odd combination of arrogance and masochism to get through it." That's just a gigantic

"Computer science is an unusually unforgiving discipline, and it takes an odd combination of arrogance and masochism to get through it." That's just a gigantic load of horseshit, and the inference that women don't go into CS because it's hard is insulting to women. There are more women in physics than in CS. Is that a more forgiving discipline? How about biochemistry, or cell biology? Both are getting near parity, even at the graduate level. And hey, let's not worry about medicine, or law...both of which are insanely "masochistic", but attract females in droves. (Two seconds of googling tells me that medicine is basically 50/50, and law is close to it, with some schools having more women than men). Women are just as desirous and capable as men when it comes to pursuing "unforgiving" careers. And there's no way that CS is more demanding or masochistic than, say, medicine (get back to me when every CS grad has to pull 48-hour residency shifts, and is entrusted with responsibilities that can kill people).