Geeks Drive Girls Out of Computer Science

[Train]

They should drive the womenz out.
In 1988 I was taking a comp sci class. Part of the grade was writing some invoices in C.
I was in the lab and needed help. But all the TAs/tutors or whatever the hell they were were all hovering around this hot chick, "helping" her.
If one did come over to help me, he'd point randomly at the monitor, then grunt then go back to the chick. I got no help.

Lol that was me. I was a lab tech in the Comp Sci dept at my college. We werent supposed to help people with thier homework, just make sure they werent surfing porn, make sure the printer had paper, and fix network/hardware problems.

So when guys came up asking for help with C++ programs, we told them to F off and went back to napping. If a hot chick asked for help, all rules went out the window.

Oh you need help? well lets sit down and go over this step by step

 

[Cheesetogo]

I hate to rely on stereotypes but women are often very bad at math. Even my dorky gamer chick friend who plays PC games with me is terrible at math and became an art major. The women who are very good at math are the ones who go into scientific fields.

From my experience as a math major, woman seem to be fairly equivalent to men in the field. It generally seems that at most schools I've been at, women and men are about 50/50. In the school I'm at right now, there are actually more females in the graduate program than men.

I do agree with you on the last part - American women seem to be much more likely to major in a hard science or math degree than engineering or computer science. I see a pretty large number of Asian girls in engineering programs.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I was pretty amazed at how many of the stereotypical CS guys there were when I switched from physics to comp sci. The physics department actually had a surprising number of girls and very few really ultra-nerdy reclusive guys. Lots of good people actually.

 

[Ruptga]

Two of my room mates make up half of their class in the CS department. One trims his beard with scissors once a month because he doesn't care (does bathe regularly though). The other is, uhm, white and nerdy. Another guy in their class is actually married and presumably normal, but I don't see much of him because he's married. The fourth one bathes about once a month; his thin hair is permanently plastered to his forehead. He never brushes his teeth, in fact last year he had one of his remaining front teeth break in half because it had rotted through.

Yes, I would say that nerds are generally unappealing or even downright scary to most females.

 

[Imp]

My civil eng class had fewer than 20 females out of 50, and I'd say half of them were not 'do not want'.

Oh well, I'm transfering to an environmental engineering section in my company in 3 months. Yay.

 

[Jeff7]

Bite me! I did major in physics!

On a serious note, this article is pretty pointless. No shit the uber geeks would drive the women away. They needed a damned study to notice that?

The uber geeks probably funded the study, in order to find out the reason for the gender ratio they were seeing. :awe:

 

[theflyingpig]

Women aren't any good at science/thinking. There are a few exceptions, but for the vast majority of women this is a fact, which cannot be denied. Everyone knows this.

 

[Schadenfroh]

How high do computer science majors go in math & physics?

My undergrad university: 3 semesters of calculus, linear algebra, discrete mathematics, 400 level calculus probability and statistics and probably another one that I cannot think of right now. That takes care of the core requirements, but one usually ends up taking linear programming, DE and another calculus class (classes are usually in a range that one can select from for certain blocks). Nearly all CS classes involve mathematics, those are the "straight" math classes. We also had to take 20+ hours of "lab based science" classes, which can include physics. I took Ochem, genetics, and a couple of semesters of Human A&P instead.

22% of CS majors are female? It certainly was lower than that at my undergrad university. Nearly all of the female CS people were Asians that were not born in the US. American female CS majors were virtually non-existent at my university. A few were around early on (sophomores), but they transferred to the business school to pursue MIS or changed majors to something not even remotely related. Oddly enough, total enrollment (all majors) was about 65% female.

 

[theeedude]

They should drive the womenz out.
In 1988 I was taking a comp sci class. Part of the grade was writing some invoices in C.
I was in the lab and needed help. But all the TAs/tutors or whatever the hell they were were all hovering around this hot chick, "helping" her.
If one did come over to help me, he'd point randomly at the monitor, then grunt then go back to the chick. I got no help.

As a former CS Lab Tutor, I can totally relate to this post

 

[Zebo]

this study is horseshit. How many women do you see entering math-intensive study in general? In my experience very few. The hardest majors that are going to have women in them are the biological sciences. Women don't have as much of an expectation put on them to be breadwinners so they major in shit like philosophy because they know after they're done banging frat dudes for 4 years they can marry the dork cs major and get him to buy her a lexus.

Anyway that's what i've heard from female art majors, social work majors, etc.

truth

 

[TridenT]

22%? I thought it would be closer to 5%... That's what surprises me...

Oh and this study is bullshit. >_>

 

[Zebo]

My guess is they are including MIS - have to be.