From: "Seth Morabito" <web@loomcom.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Women in computing
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:47:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d7f24f7-98c2-4fb0-973b-b7cfbe91133c@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190214192940.ED58418C0AB@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, at 11:30 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Deborah Scherrer
>
> > In the early days of Usenix, I used to keep track of the women.
> > Initially, about 30% of the organization was female. That dropped every
> > year.
>
> Interesting. Any ideas/thoughts on what was going on, what caused that?
I have seen some interesting stories about this phenomenon. There was a piece on NPR's "Planet Money" in 2014 that offers one possible explanation that home computers in the 1980s were more commonly bought for boys than for girls, and that this eventually created an experience gap. Prior to the home computer revolution, they reason, no experience with computers was assumed when pursuing math and computer science in college, but afterward, experience with home computers was assumed, and boys had more of it than girls.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding
> Noel
-Seth
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Seth Morabito
Poulsbo, WA
web@loomcom.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-14 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-14 19:29 Noel Chiappa
2019-02-14 19:47 ` Seth Morabito [this message]
2019-02-14 20:02 ` Deborah Scherrer
2019-02-14 20:30 ` Larry McVoy
2019-02-14 20:37 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-02-14 22:22 ` Toby Thain
2019-02-14 22:37 ` Deborah Scherrer
2019-02-14 23:35 ` Andy Kosela
2019-02-14 23:45 ` Thomas Kellar
2019-02-14 23:46 ` Deborah Scherrer
2019-02-14 23:52 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-02-14 23:40 ` Larry McVoy
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2019-02-14 13:14 John P. Linderman
2019-02-14 14:02 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-02-14 18:51 ` Deborah Scherrer
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