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Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science?
ruheling writes "From yesterday's New York Times: ' What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?' In many US universities, over the past decade, there has been deliberate effort to integrate and encourage women and girls to get more involved in the 'hard' sciences, engineering, and math. However, instead of the proportion of women to men increasing, in Computer Science the opposite is actually true. Specifically, in 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. Now many computer science departments report that women now make up less than 10 percent of the newest undergraduates. What's going on here, folks?"
You guys are being creepy. Girls don't like creepy dudes leering at them all the time.
Wait, What? No female /.'s??
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." Hayek
Simple, because "Math is Hard". That and they're tired of their male colleagues saying, "Byte me", "Mind if I nibble for a bit", and similar worn out expressions as pickup lines.
Given one hour to live, the student replied: "I'd spend it with professor FP who can make an hour seem like a lifetime."
With props to Will Ferrell, the funniest man alive:
A woman's brain is one-third the size of ours. It's science.
I got fired from my last job, so I'm staying home with the kids. I suppose that means I got Terminated, and I Stay Resident instead.
You should talk to a few RN's before you make the assertion that a nursing graduate has a more healthy lifestyle than a CS graduate. One of the nurses at the flu clinic recently had just come off of three straight "twelves." I was glad that it was the other lady who was giving me my shot . . .
Mon chien, il n'a pas du nez. Comment scent-il? TrÃs mauvais!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2000 Woman study computer science because Finland rewrites its constitution?
Wait...there are girls in CS? Plural?
To deal with the cold, hard logic of computers all day, you need to be comfortable with such an unemotional, machine-like environment. As an IT worker, I can tell you firsthand that many women aren't comfortable in situations like that. Far too many ex-girlfriends of mine have told me I'm "too much like a robot." To which I reply, "a sex robot?" And they say no. :-(
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Yeah there were 2 males and 2 females. Something has changed with computer science since the 80's? Really? No kidding? So my Commodore Vic-20 isn't still the hottest machine around?
boo hoo hoo. There aren't equal numbers of men and women in everything. You know what? I was in the mens room and I didn't see one woman in there. MY GOD!!! We must address the inequality!
Of course when women do better or have a majority in something it's "Women ROCK!!!!" and when they don't it's "We must shatter this glass ceiling".
Insightful? Parenting advice that includes giving a 1 year old a hammer?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
So they'd prefer a bunch of nerds who do paint their nails?
Insightful? Parenting advice that includes giving a 1 year old a hammer?
What can I say? We're liberal parents?
Here is a link to the toy hammer employed by our little doll-smasher. Hopefully that clears up any confusion.
They don't grade fathers, but if your daughter's a stripper, you fucked up. --Chris Rock
If you follow the females, you will figure out where the next job boom will be.
I tried that, and all I got was this lousy jail cell.
It's your fault for naming the cat HAMMER.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
What happened on 11/4/08?
Women in CS in the 80s was explained by the dot-com boom?
Learn something new every day.
I am the man with no sig!
the creepy geek guys leering at them like they've never seen a live female before
This just proves it: geeks are necrophiliacs! creepy geeks!