At Thinkful we recently dug into our enrollment and performance numbers to see what we could learn about people towards the beginning of their careers as develo

At Thinkful we recently dug into our enrollment and performance numbers to see what we could learn about people towards the beginning of their careers as developers [1]. Turns out that women enroll in our courses at about the same proportion they're currently represented in engineering, which is disappointing, but that there's no difference between their performance once they enroll. Of particular relevance is the rate at which incoming students report their motivation for taking the course is to "found a startup". 16% of men, but only 5% of women, gave that reason. [1] http://blog.thinkful.com/post/72670499078/gender-differences-in-coding-courses-looking-at-the http://blog.thinkful.com/post/72670499078/gender-differences... Edit for grammar.