[smsm42]

Currently, there are substantially more females than males (60/40) among people receiving college degrees: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/06/women-dominate-higher-ed...

Education is the widely recognized source of power. Should we strive for 50/50 and if so, how should we achieve it?

[keithpeter]

Perhaps the kind of activities involved with programming will change as the devices we seek to program evolve?

Perhaps building applications and managing data will involve more visual tools that allow domain specific knowledge to be applied directly?