The Ada Initiative takes a different approach

Posted Feb 17, 2011 14:48 UTC (Thu) by mrjk (subscriber, #48482)
In reply to: The Ada Initiative takes a different approach by NAR
Parent article: The Ada Initiative takes a different approach

My anecdotal evidence is that we have regressed. I taught assembly language and architecture in the early 1990's and had 20 to 30% of classes being female in an urban university. Maybe we were just an outlier, but there sure seems to be less women in my nephew's classes the last couple years.

The Ada Initiative takes a different approach

Posted Feb 17, 2011 16:20 UTC (Thu) by eean (subscriber, #50420) [Link]

No, this is in line with other statistics I've heard.

I graduated a few years ago and have never worked with a female programmer on a project. (and to be clear, I'm no in a position to really pick who I work with heh). It's easy to see how it might be intimidating to often be the first female programmer your co-workers have ever worked with.

and there also seems to be a sieve: very few females in Comp Sci programs but then even less as open source developers.

The Ada Initiative takes a different approach

Posted Feb 17, 2011 21:56 UTC (Thu) by maco (guest, #53641) [Link] (1 responses)

Absolutely. Remember, 70 years ago, programming was women's work.

The Ada Initiative takes a different approach

Posted Feb 18, 2011 10:12 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]

One of our computer science teachers said that back in the 70s the computer science classes were full of women. Of course, at that time they didn't actually use computers very much... Then came the generation that grew up playing (and coding) on C-64 and the gender ratio changed drastically.