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I think the graph here -- http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelors-degrees-conferred-to-women-by-major-1970-2012/ http://www.randalolson.co
by colomon 12y ago
I think the graph here -- http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelors-degrees-conferred-to-women-by-major-1970-2012/ http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor... -- provides an interesting contrast. Seems like what has happened is the percentage of women in CS was tracking along with that in architecture or the physical sciences, and whatever happened in the 80s caused it to gradually move down towards (but so far always above) the percentage of women in engineering.
- seanflyon 12y agoI think that when CS was a newer field it was treated more like Math and less like engineering.
- bane 12y agoThat's an interesting graph. The article makes the claim that this was an effect of computers basically being sold as toys (which are almost always gender targeted in their marketing). But this graph also makes me think about the huge and longstanding push to align software development with traditional engineering practices...that may also have been a contributing factor.