I agree 100% that you can't teach passion - that has to come from within. However, we certainly can do awfully better at encouraging that passion when it emerg

I agree 100% that you can't teach passion - that has to come from within. However, we certainly can do awfully better at encouraging that passion when it emerges rather than dutifully stuffing it back in the bottle and turning a promising college career right back into the pursuit of an MRS(tm) degree. And if that takes a degree of well-meaning but mostly awkward affirmative action until the majority of brogrammers have either retired or drank/snorted/driven themselves to destruction, that's just the price of changing the status quo IMO. I used to think otherwise, and all of these heavy-handed efforts to pull women into Computer Science once made me roll my eyes at their ineffectiveness, but all I had to do was listen to how a lot of my younger co-workers still judge women. Same $h!+ new decade alas...