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.

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Re:Can we stop trying to come up with a reason?

[i kan reed]

It could be that it was a contextless copy-past spam post that doesn't even begin to address what I actually said.

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Re:Can we stop trying to come up with a reason?

[PopeRatzo]

but lose the guilt-tripping SJW faux indignation BS.

I bet you care deeply about ethics in gaming journalism.