I'm not sure, but it seems not to be.

That we can't tell whether it's an actual thesis subject or a joke tells something about the state of academic social science...

Now, since the underlying question seems to be "why women don't do (computer) science?", I'd like to ask the author: why did _she_ choose to comfort socio-sexual prejudices, by studying such a stereotypically feminine subject as social sciences? Why did _she_ decide not to become a developer, a lumberjack, a surgeon, a mathematician...