A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women in tech

Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ... by ploxiln on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:27PM (#17034783)

Back in the day, there were a few more women in CS :)

I still agree that CS being "less social" is a huge factor. But have to admit it seems like there's some other factors too, and I think the "less social" and "wild west" combo is pretty significant.

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Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ... by curtis on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:58PM (#17035019)

> Back in the day, there were a few more women in CS :)

I actually think this is probably wrong. Back in the day there was a higher percentage of women in CS. It's possible that in absolute numbers there are as many women today in CS as there was then. That's because there's probably a lot more people in CS overall.

I also think it's likely that back in the day most college-educated programmers had EE degrees, not CS degrees, so what you'd really want to look at is the percentage of women in CS and EE, not just in CS.

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Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ... by stcredzero on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @07:40PM (#17035265)

Back in the day, there were a few more women in CS :)

The professor I was thinking of was a woman, actually.

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