In order to learn how to program, you have to have an interest in learning how to program. When I grew up in the 1980's girls and women didn't have an interest

In order to learn how to program, you have to have an interest in learning how to program. When I grew up in the 1980's girls and women didn't have an interest in learning how to program as much as boys or men had. When I went to UM Rolla in 1986 there were very few women in my computer science classes, and for some reason they were most likely to drop out of college before freshman year or change to a different university or different major. I asked and I was told that the classes were designed for males to learn, but not for females to learn. That because of this women and girls had a harder time to learn math and science because the books were written by men and not women and thus were sexist. That I am only a programmer because I have this male privilege? I really don't know what to say about that, I always thought males and females had the same potential to learn, and never thought of any book I read or class I took as sexist towards women and girls. But now more and more women are taking arts degrees instead of science and majoring in women's studies, politics, communications, and other areas. Just because they don't study computer science does not mean they aren't smart, just smart in other areas. They never developed an interest in learning how to code and I don't know why.