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Women's Enrollment In Computer Science Correlates Negatively With Net Access

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-al-gore's-fault dept.

New submitter MoriT sends this excerpt from a post examining the correlation between women's enrollment in computer science programs at college and their access to the internet. "There is currently a responsibility-dodging contest between industry and academia over who is to blame for the declining enrollment of women in Computer Science and declining employment of women in software development. I hear people in industry bemoan the 'empty pipeline,' while academics maintain that women aren't entering their programs because of perceptions of the industry. I have compiled some data that may help resolve the question by highlighting a third factor common to both: access to an Internet-based culture of computing. ... I conclude that in the last 10 years among many Northern European nations, rising Internet access is correlated with falling interest in computer science relative to other professions among women. The group of Mediterranean nations that show a positive correlation should be a fruitful area for future research, but seem outliers from the Northern cohort."

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  1. Re:Correlation/Causation? by DurendalMac · · Score: 5, Funny

    Putting up with creepy neckbeards in the CS major? I've certainly seen it with the scant few women that were CS majors at my school.

  2. Re:Have you asked them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quiet, sweetheart. The men are talking.

  3. Re:Have you asked them? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has anyone bothered to ask women directly

    Yes, they did ask. But the women got all in a big huff, and snapped back, "You SHOULD know that already, and SHOULDN'T need to ask. You're simply don't CARE about us, or pay us any attention."

    If it was computer geeks taking the survey, they probably wouldn't get any answers from females anyway, so they might as well try to create some abstract association.

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  4. Its by JustNiz · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because women and hard logic are such a natural mix.

  5. Re:Correlation/Causation? by Tanktalus · · Score: 4, Funny

    scant [...] women

    Pics or it didn't happen!

    Oh crap, I think I just proved the point. :-P

  6. Re:Why is this even an issue? by JustNiz · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a guy I'd have gone into nursing but those little dresses and stockings make my butt look big.

  7. Re:Bullshit PC question yields bullshit PC results by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're being given a bloody red carpet

    See, it's jokes like that which get us in trouble.