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It's amazing how many more people complain about this:

Women receive fewer than a fifth of the bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science...

than this:

...even though they get nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees...

The article also mentioned:

"In 1980, 30 percent of the computer science degrees went to women."

If true, why is the percentage going down?

The number of men went up?

People are starting to complain more about the second fact more and more nowadays, even compared to 2 years ago. Will there start to be widespread men's only scholarships soon and other affirmative action style things for men? Who knows.

My son likes programming-ish things (like modding games). My daughter likes shopping and texting. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with one being a boy and the other being a girl. (Yet more female software developers would be great!)

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