This topic was raised at an education debate in Scotland today, and purely and simply, no-one had the answers. But there is a huge gender bias. All i would say is that computer science is the modern equivalent of the engineering subjects, which have always been male dominiated.
One thing that was clear though was that the girls stated that there were no barriers, nothing was preventing them choosing or persuing the computer science courses, so at least that is positive.
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This topic was raised at an education debate in Scotland today, and purely and simply, no-one had the answers. But there is a huge gender bias. All i would say is that computer science is the modern equivalent of the engineering subjects, which have always been male dominiated. One thing that was clear though was that the girls stated that there were no barriers, nothing was preventing them choosing or persuing the computer science courses, so at least that is positive.