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Re:The History of Alice and Bob by tptacek on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @10:53AM (#14804685)
Anecdotally, crypto conferences have noticeably more women than other areas of computer science.

From the data, women are better represented in virtually all fields of science, from molecular biology to astronomy to pure mathematics, than they are in computer science. Computer science and physics are the two worst STEM fields for gender parity.

My guess (that's all it is) is that cryptography is an intersection between CS and mathematics, and the mathematics draws more women into the field.

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Re:The History of Alice and Bob by JoachimSchipper on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:55PM (#14806852)
My personal impression is that you're right: there's quite a lot of women cryptographers (thinking of "attendees of crypto conferences", but of "top figures in the field"), but these women are disproportionally from a mathematics background.
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