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This was right around the peak of CS degrees awarded to women: 37% in 1984.
by nofinator 12y ago
This was right around the peak of CS degrees awarded to women: 37% in 1984.
- CalRobert 12y agoThank you for mentioning this - there's a perception that CS and tech has always been male dominated, but there were plenty of women programmers in the 80's and the field has become even more male-dominated since. It's really annoying that one of the primary qualifications for tech CEO's is apparently 'be a tall man, ideally white but Asian is OK too' "In the United States, the number of women represented in undergraduate computer science education and the white-collar information technology workforce peaked in the mid-1980s, and has declined ever since" -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing
- maaku 12y agoThere was, in fact, a point in time when programming was 100% dominated by women.
- CalRobert 12y agoIndeed! At one point a "computer" was a person, and this was also a field where women were relatively well represented (when compared to other fields during the same time periods). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
- Dewie 12y agoWho'd have thought that women could be nerds, too.
- peterwwillis 12y agoYep. Interesting reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-computer-programming-was-womens-work/2011/08/24/gIQAdixGgJ_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-computer-program...