Girls not Going into CS

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 12, 2003 @04:19AM from the its-just-not-fair dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Times has an article about what you already know: few girls go on to be IT women. For example, the 2001 AP exam in computer science drew 19,000 boys and just 2,400 girls. Information technology, despite its relative youth, has been far slower to approach gender equality than law or medicine, fields which decades ago overtly excluded women. The problem is not lack of smarts: Girls statistically outperform boys overall in grade school and make up 57% of college graduates, margins that are growing to the point that some colleges are toying with affirmative action for men."

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girls who play cs by reptilian+biotech · 2003-01-12 04:20 · Score: 1, Funny

I know girls who play counter-strike... the numbers are growing! cs is where its at.. and it could lead to cs.
1. Re:girls who play cs by moniker · 2003-01-12 04:28 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Do you know they are girls for a fact?
  
  Or are they just a lot of ten year old boys you are hearing over Voice Comm?
  
  I never felt so old as when they added voice communication to counter-strike and I realized half the people who were kicking my ass hadn't hit puberty yet. /sigh
2. Re:girls who play cs by painkillr · 2003-01-12 04:53 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  don't worry. they were all cheating.
I can assure you by A+Gremlin+In+Kremlin · 2003-01-12 04:21 · Score: 5, Funny

few girls go on to be IT women
I can assure you the guys are even fewer in this case...

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1. Re:I can assure you by dubstop · 2003-01-12 07:41 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Well, I worked with a guy, a C programmer, who started as the father of four children, and ended up as a woman(snip, snip) who was in a lesbian (???) relationship with another transexual in the IT industry. I, therefore, have personally made the acquaintance of two men who went on to be IT women.
we don't want chicks in computer science ;) by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-12 04:23 · Score: 1, Funny

all chicks do in computer science is get fat and ugly sitting infront of the computer all day, just like us... ;)

we want HOT, sporty chicks :)
1. Re:we don't want chicks in computer science ;) by morgajel · 2003-01-12 06:47 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  not all of them are fat and ugly.
  
  keep saying that, but until your discussing the finer points on functional programming versus OO programming with a hot chick during sex, you, my friend, are missing out. :)
  
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2. Re:we don't want chicks in computer science ;) by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-12 08:04 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Does this 'hot chick' have a pronounced Adam's Apple, large hands and feet, and only does oral on you and anal on 'her'? In short, is this hot chick named Steve?
3. Re:we don't want chicks in computer science ;) by sporty · 2003-01-12 11:38 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  we want HOT, sporty chicks :)
  
  Uh.. i'm not a female :P And I'm certainly not letting you date any of my daughers.
  
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you call this a career? by nikko · 2003-01-12 04:23 · Score: 5, Funny

No chicks and your job will be outsourced to India. Any wonder that all the tv shows are about lawyers and not geeks?
And this is a bad thing how? by DickBreath · 2003-01-12 04:24 · Score: 3, Funny

And why is this a bad thing?

Girls are okay. Programming is more fun. Guys are more fun. Geek guys are the most fun.

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Re:Girls in CS by lubricated · 2003-01-12 04:27 · Score: 2, Funny

Some one needs to tell her to use a bigger font.

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Girls to Guys Ratio by moertle · 2003-01-12 04:38 · Score: 4, Funny

I go to a relatively small tech school and I would kill for a 44% male population as opposed to the ~70%.

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1. Re:Girls to Guys Ratio by haedesch · 2003-01-12 05:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If you actually would kill selectively, you might achieve that percentage
Naturally so by StarBar · 2003-01-12 04:44 · Score: 2, Funny
If girls designed the computer it would probably not be looking like it does. It would be:
- based on fuzzy logic
- 10^6 times more sensetive to gamma-rays
- randomly refusing to understand instructions
- needing extra careful touch each month
- complaining about lack of input instead of asking for it
- asking you feel like pressing enter instead of tell you to
- comforting you when you do wrong
- cleaning out bugs and system errors automatically
- voice driven rather then keyboard
They simply don't like the machines we've created. Have they ever been greatful for the washing
machines, vacum cleaners, stoves, refrigators and such? No!! Instead they are taking over the world.
Take cover boys!
/StarBar
Hopeless by S.I.O. · 2003-01-12 04:47 · Score: 5, Funny

> 19,000 boys and just 2,400 girls

Before you get ecstatic that you have a 10% chance to get laid, out of those 2400 girls 1000 are lesbians and 1000 are dating businessmen and lawyers. So it's more like 1%. Now go have a beer!
1. Re:Hopeless by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-12 05:31 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Same for vise versa. 20,000 of those CS boys are gay ya know.
Re:Girls in CS by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-12 04:50 · Score: 3, Funny

Worth a look is this article [spodesabode.com] written by a girl doing CS at the university of kent.

From the article:

Now, half way through the second year I struggle to think of 5 other girls who've made it this far on the CS (computer science) course. The rest just faded away throughout the first year including one young, exceedingly tall, blonde and shapely girl from Sweden whose disappearance was mourned by the lads for months afterwards.

I'm on this course and I (plus a couple of hundred other guys) know exactly who's she's talking about!
Thank God! by HorrorIsland · 2003-01-12 05:11 · Score: 1, Funny

Imagine if women dominated CS!
Compilers would keep complaining about a mistake you made twenty versions ago.
And debuggers would refuse to say anything except "If you don't know what's wrong, I'm not going to tell you!"
so... by stinky+wizzleteats · 2003-01-12 05:35 · Score: 3, Funny
1. Convert institutions of learning into institutions of conformity and political correctness.
2. Socially engineer maleness as a disease, which must be punished and medicated.
3. Institute affirmative action for men.
Ok, stop the machine, I want to get off.
Well of COURSE not! by TerryAtWork · 2003-01-12 05:46 · Score: 4, Funny

GIRLS can get laid.

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Don't let that get you down by Dr.+Cody · 2003-01-12 05:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Who knows, maybe they're just castrati.
In other news . . . by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-12 08:33 · Score: 1, Funny

. . . CS majors aren't having much luck going into girls, either.
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only three figures? by commodoresloat · 2003-01-12 10:20 · Score: 5, Funny

possibly an easy route to a three-figure salary.
I remember reading on slashdot that CS folks were working for peanuts, but I didn't realize things were that bad.
In other news by AnalogDiehard · 2003-01-12 11:48 · Score: 3, Funny

There are fewer guys going into nursing colleges than girls.

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Re:Image of the IT industry by Anti-HanzoSan · 2003-01-12 11:57 · Score: 2, Funny

Im male and im not good at math, whats your point

You're not very good at spelling and logic, either. Are you sure you know how to code?
And also... by loconet · 2003-01-12 12:12 · Score: 3, Funny

"Girls not goin into CS"

And I can assure you.. the number of CS guys going into girls is far less!

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