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Re:Why do so few people major in computer science? by david-cako on Monday May 29, 2017 @03:27PM (#14440934)
This is an argument that make on a regular basis and it never seems to work for the people on the other side of the argument. There's always some excuse that boils down to:

A, I only care about the demographics when it's convenient (i.e., the career is prestigious)

or B, "yeah well I support men in nursing and women in construction too!", despite there not being a similar effort in the known universe to force demographics in these fields.

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Re:Why do so few people major in computer science? by erikbye on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @02:45AM (#14443314)
Why should demographics be forced? This insane obsession with having a 1:1 ratio male/female, and now ethnicity-based as well, is not healthy.

It's weird that the politically correct opinion seems to be that it can't be accepted that a natural gravitation towards certain professions or acts based on gender is real.

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