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NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders
gollum123 writes: Back in the day, computer science was as legitimate a career path for women as medicine, law, or science. But in 1984, the number of women majoring in computing-related subjects began to fall, and the percentage of women is now significantly lower in CS than in those other fields. NPR's Planet Money sought to answer a simple question: Why? According to the show's experts, computers were advertised as a "boy's toy." This, combined with early '80s geek culture staples like the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, as well as movies like War Games and Weird Science, conspired to instill the perception that computers were primarily for men.
If 80's pop culture had that much lasting influence, every college student would still be majoring in kicking commie ass and breakdancing.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Madonna wore a Boy Toy tee shirt. Does this explain the lack of female pop singers today?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
the computer establishment was shown as Big Brother and all the tech workers were depicted as mindless slaves. All shown in dull black and white footage.
Then comes running a feisty young woman in colorful athletic clothes. She hurls a hammer and destroys the system. Lesson: girls hate computers and break them!
It might be that they are intimidated by my stylish wardrobe furnished by TJ Max.
Good work! I *knew* this wasn't a complex problem with multiple related causes spanning decades. Now we know The Truth: One cause, from a small span of years. IN YOUR FACE, everyone else!
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I forgot that the point of links was to have a certain number, and not to support a point you're making. That retroactively means I lose all debates.
Darn.
"Don't be mean to women" "treat them like everyone else"?
MAKE UP YOUR MIND!