| > thought that less women graduate with CS degrees than men though This is absolutely true but it is also true that there are many successful people working in the tech industry at all levels with very little formal comp sci education. If men can get software engineering jobs with no formal comp sci education, which they certainly can, then the fact that there is an imbalance in degrees does not mean that we have to have an imbalance in employment. The low representation of women in CS at university level needs to be addressed as well but the best way to do that is by making software development a job that women want and believe that they can succeed in. People go to college to get training for a career and so if women feel like software development is a profession that excludes women they aren't going to waste their time and money training for it. "the percentage of CS-degree holders who were women peaked in the 1980s at 34% and has been on a downward trend ever since, even though women currently earn 57% of all undergraduate degrees." http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/cracking-the-code:-why-aren... The fact that there has been a sharp decline in female participation in CS in just the past few decades demonstrates that this is a temporary anomaly and not some "fundamental difference between genders" and further demonstrates that large changes are possible with the correct policies. |