There’s been much discussion lately on the web about the dismal # of women choosing Computer Science. I thought I’d go straight to the source and ask, you know, a woman, who did not choose CS.
My wife.
Her theory on gender imbalance in CS. (I had to transcribe as quickly as I could, and I’m not sure I quite caught the spirit of it all)
It’s stupid. You don’t make anything tangible. When I think of Computer Science, I think of greasy gamer nerds who want show off for their greasy gamer nerd friends.
Why would I want to choose that, particularly when I know that when I go into it I’m going to be harangued by perverts who do nothing but sit on their butt all day? Which makes your butt huge.
(Caveat: This is not what she thinks about the people I work with. This is her general view on what a female surveying the field would see as a Freshman in college.)