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Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ... by stcredzero on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:45PM (#17034934)
I don't know. Are there?

Popular Music? Fiction writing? Journalism? Creating video content would qualify. (Possibly relevant: YouTube's audience is mostly male, while Tumblr's is mostly female. IIRC, the audience for video pornography also tends to skew male, while written erotica skews female.)

The home computing revolution was a weird inflection point.

Basically, it's the start of when computing went from a tool for accounting/administration/bureaucracy to also broadly encompassing media. Many of the de-profesionalized fields I mention above are associated with media.

Again, part of my claim is: this is not really a surprising or weird argument. It's pretty obvious from the recent history of the field.

I do think you're onto something.

Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ... by tptacek on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:59PM (#17035034)
Journalism seems like it could be a good example!