Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men
by sweeneyrod on Saturday January 14, 2017 @06:34PM
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Do women receive more than 40% of degrees in CS (or CS, maths, engineering, physics which I think are the other degrees likely to feed into a programming job)? My estimate is that the figure is more likely to be 5-20%.
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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men
by rayiner on Saturday January 14, 2017 @10:58PM
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Women receive 40-45% of the degrees in math and statistics, but less than 20% of degrees in CS. The percentage of CS degrees degrees awarded to women is down from 30% in the mid 1990s.
There is no rational "biological" explanation for why women would somehow be "biologically" averse to CS while pursuing degrees in a closely related field at much higher numbers. There is no "biological" explanation why women's interest in CS would drop dramatically over just a few decades.
Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men
by 2muchcoffeeman on Saturday January 14, 2017 @07:28PM
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Overall it may be true. But look at the break down. Here's the numbers from 2015.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2015/01/27/wo...