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Bachelor of Computer Science Degrees (Men vs. Women)

By Grizzo on Mar 10, 2007
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Type	Vertical Scale	Time Scale	Data Aggregation
Bar Horizontal Bar Scatter Line Other Views Table	Absolute Relative to Average Relative to Range	Yearly	Average High Low Total Count Distinct None

Sources: National Science Foundataion (http://www.nsf.gov/statisti...)

While the number of computer science bachelors degrees in the U.S. continues to rise, the recent decline in female recipients (bottom) should be a wake up call to educators. Data provided by Swiveler jmvidal. —Grizzo

Comments (5)

stiller

stiller says

I think the fact that there are 3x as many men as women in computer science is more of an issue. The Internet will be the most influential tool of this century, and the fact that it is 75%+ male (at least in the U.S.) seems like a huge issue.

posted about 1 year ago

Anonymous says

speaking of that what does this data look like for minorities?

posted about 1 year ago

Anonymous Brown Guy says

I bet the minorities graph shows an exponential growth of Asian and South-Asians in the IT sector. What Indian guy doesn't know Java? ;-)

posted about 1 year ago

Michael Brundage says

You should normalize this against the data for men and women getting Bachelors degrees in the US (in any field). In 1960, the ration of men to women of Bachelors degrees in the US was about 1.6:1. In 2003 it was 1:1.3. This means that the gender inequality for Computer Science is actually worse than it looks on your graph.

posted about 1 year ago

lizcha

lizcha says

This graph seems to imply that the gap between men and women widened in the past few years. I agree you should normalize this to see if that really is the case. If so, that's alarming...

posted about 1 year ago