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Re:Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women by ma... by guard-of-terra on Sunday June 15, 2014 @03:29PM (#7896044)
What changed? Perhaps an influx of affordable home computers that drew a huge amount of male youth to computer-related occupations.
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Re:Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women by ma... by tobinfricke on Sunday June 15, 2014 @04:12PM (#7896162)
What is gender-specific about "affordable home computers"?
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Re:Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women by ma... by guard-of-terra on Sunday June 15, 2014 @04:56PM (#7896281)
Boys tend to figure out how home computers work, and once they start, this is an endless trip down the rabbit hole.

I don't usually observe the same in girls. They use computers for their worth but they don't seek more.

Female programmers I know are usually taught formally, not self-taught as opposed to male programmers.

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Re:Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women by ma... by tobinfricke on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:51PM (#7940119)
As far as I know, there is no actual evidence for this being a result of innate differences between boys and girls.
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