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Women in Computing To Decline To 22% by 2025, Study Warns (usatoday.com)
New research warns that at the rate we're going, the number of women in the computing workforce will decline to 22% from 24% by 2025 if nothing is done to encourage more of them to study computer science. From a USA Today report (shared by an anonymous reader): The research from Accenture and nonprofit group Girls Who Code says taking steps now to encourage more women to pursue a computer science education could triple the number of women in computing to 3.9 million in that same timeframe. Women account for 24% of computing jobs today, but could account for 39% by 2025, according to the report, Cracking the Gender Code. And greater numbers of women entering computer science could boost women's cumulative earnings by $299 billion and help the U.S. fill the growing demand for computing talent, said Julie Sweet, Accenture's group chief executive for North America.
If women choose not to go into computing fields, why should they be forced (or even encouraged) to do so?
Really depends why they're choosing not do, doesn't it.
Why isn't there a similar push to get men into kindergarten education or nursing?
Oh yes. I see, because othr people do things badly, we should too! That maks sense. The bst solution for crapness is more crapness. Good job!
How about letting people pick the field(s) they want to go into without telling them what they "ought" to do based on a pointless metric or percentage?
Yes, good idea! You do realise that would include not activly putting off certain segments of the population, right?
SJW n. One who posts facts.
And the only conclusion you can reach is that women are incompetent and "not interested". Have you ever pondered that people with attitudes like yours might be part of the problem?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
If other people's opinions are enough to discourage you, then you have a weak spine and won't succeed at anything you do.
So the answer to the question is "Yes, we're a back of sexist assholes where I work, so women should just put up with pricks because 'spines'!"
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
interesting that she didn't become a princess or aspire to be a house wife as was probably being preached by the same person telling her math isn;t for girls... unless the same person was also telling her relational databases are for girls and not math?!!!