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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Re:And this is a bad thing how? by DickBreath · 2003-01-12 04:54 · Score: 1, Troll

I'm sure the majority here wuold agree with you. However, some of us don't find it a battle at all, and don't hear any call that must be heeded.

Having a minority opinion is grounds for being modded down.

Nevertheless, even if for some strange reason you find women more attractive than men, my original question remains: Women not going into IT is a bad thing exactly how?

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Big Deal by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-12 05:14 · Score: 0, Troll

As a gay male, I'm more interested in what it would take to get the men to work out once and a while.
Re:The problem by TheOnlyCoolTim · 2003-01-12 06:18 · Score: 1, Troll

Heh, we have a Girl who goes to RPI, posting. What next, other mythical creatures like bigfoot and unicorns?

Tim

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Re:My experience... by singularity · 2003-01-17 09:09 · Score: 0, Troll

It has been a while, but I thought one thing deserved replying to:

Engineering and CS, however, doesn't typically suffer from the 'boys club' mentality...if anything, it suffers from a lack of maturity among its members. But that immaturity is a hell of a lot easier to overcome than a bigoted attitude.

IT and CS may not suffer from an "old boy's club" mentality, but it certainly suffers from a "boy's club - no girls allowed" sort of immaturity that is very off-setting to females thinking about entering "the club."

Want proof? Read the messages posted on this article and see what is posted, but also modded up as "Insightful" and "Interesting." There is a lot of bigoted attitude in the very posts on this story. I would like anyone to say otherwise.

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