Notes from UPenn's Forum on Brogramming and Sexism in Computer Science

Re:Notes from UPenn's Forum on Brogramming and Sexism in Com... by flatline on Thursday March 22, 2012 @11:19PM (#3743487)

FACT: the number of women in CS has been dropping for decades. The prevalent reason for this appears to be "cultural biases that discouraged girls and women from pursuing a career in the field" [1].

There have been several high-ranking HN discussions over the last few days on this topic, all of which revolved around women in the field feeling ostracized and even harassed by their male colleagues. There is absolutely no need to draw in a spurious evolutionary argument to explain this trend.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html

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Re:Notes from UPenn's Forum on Brogramming and Sexism in Com... by katane on Friday March 23, 2012 @01:03AM (#3743784)

You are linking low number of CS freshwomen to being harassed by male colleagues. The problem of that argument is obviously that the earlierst most people would be exposed to such an environment is _after_ college.

So maybe its not culture in programming, but culture in society that is to blame here.

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