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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?"
Tittie bars pay better, and are a doorway to lucrative pr0n careers. Why would women go into programming unless they are old or ugly?
Yes it would, when you're taking minor biological differences and using them as an excuse not to try and give females the same math instruction as boys.
Evolutionary biology isn't a science, and most of this crap comes out of there. I recommend looking up a few of these studies, and finding the three separate ones that show that women are attracted primarily to the traits present in evolutionary biologists.
It's an entire "science" dedicated to proving that it's ok to cheat on your wife, because it's natural. Well, A)that's crap, and B)something being natural doesn't actually make it worth doing. I mean, naturally I'd crap all over the place, instead of in a toilet. I can't see anyone suggesting that has advantages.
>>>You're a misogynistic putz
On the contrary, I love women a great deal. As often as possible (if they allow me). But one thing I will never do is insult them ("putz"), because I'm more mature than that. YOU might want to try being more mature too instead of being a misandrist.
STRAWMAN ARGUMENT:
I never said women are "only" interested in pink-collar fields... please stop putting words into my mouth I did not say. I said that when you peer into the Health & Human Development classes, they are dominated by 80-90% women. And similarly engineering is dominated by 80-90% men. At no time did I use the term "only". It does not apply to either major.
Instead I'd like an answer of why the HHD major only has ~10% men. Are men being suppressed by the female gender? Or is there some other mechanism at work? I suspect it's lack of interest by men in that career; similarly I suspect there's a general lack of interest by women in engineering. Making this observation does NOT make me a misogynist.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
I make a comment about titties and I get modded -1 Flamebait. (See below.) She makes a comment about titties and she gets +5 Insightful.
You know what the difference is? She has titties and I don't. It's all about the titties.
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Yes, sexual harassment in response to a sincere post about how somebody feels continually harassed is totally hilarious. Dick.
I don't mind that somebody made the obvious joke, but I do mind that it got modded up to a 5. You people wanna know why there aren't a lot of women in the field? Try a mirror.