15 Feb
2019
15 Feb
'19
1:47 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, at 11:30 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
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-…
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? Noel
-Seth
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Seth Morabito
Poulsbo, WA
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