I read with sadness this NY Times story, "What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?" The number of females going into computer science
has actually decreased, not increased, over the last generation in the
U.S. (This is not true elsewhere, btw. Don't, please don't, drag out
some hokey, fake genetic explanation here.) Why? everyone is asking. Good question. When I was a kid, I won a scholarship to math camp. The days were challenging and exhilirating but the nights were terrible. When we all went to our tents, I was the only girl in the girl's tent. Later, when it came time to choose between majors, and decide what graduate school to go to, I was torn between my first love, what was then called quantificational logic, and literature. Had I chosen the former, I would have ended up in AI, I suspect. I looked through a lot of catalogues, then decided I didn't want to spend an entire life as the only girl in the tent. Why do so few women today go into computer science? Here's the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html?emc=eta1
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