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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?"
Men shouldn't work with kids. Most men are sexual predators. I wouldn't want a male middle school teacher working with my kids. What kind of pervert male would get into that kind of position other than to molest children!?
Tittie bars pay better, and are a doorway to lucrative pr0n careers. Why would women go into programming unless they are old or ugly?
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Mostly, women think differently. I know not ALL women. Let's get that out of the way now. I am talking GENERALITIES and not every last one of you.
Women are more aligned with simple, repetitive and multiple tasks. Men are more aligned single tasks that require great concentration. So it is without wonder in my mind that more men are engineers, programmers and the like. One cannot be successful in those types of occupations without a vast capacity for focus and determination. And on the flip-side, women are certainly very well suited for the types of occupations in which they naturally excel. I don't think it is ever a good idea to fight nature. And when it is an individual woman's nature to actually have talent and ability to work in arenas where men are more prevalent, there should be no obstacles placed in her path... especially sexist obstacles. Blocking nature under most circumstances is a bad idea regardless of which way nature leads.
Ultimately, people should stop caring about it... sexual identity should be considered irrelevant in this day and age. It is rather like racism -- we are most already beyond those things in the practical sense. Anyone still fighting those "battles" haven't noticed the changes that have been made and that there is danger of going too far in their one direction.
So why is noone writing articles about the "gender gap" in the Health & Human Development field? ("Only 5% of men pursue a degree in this field.") This isn't about achieving equality, but about pushing the female agenda.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
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.