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Bachelor of Computer Science Degrees (Men vs. Women)

By Grizzo on Mar 10, 2007
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Time Scale	Data Aggregation
Yearly	Average High Low Total Count Distinct None

Academic year ending	Bachelors Men	Bachelors Women


1999
1966	76	13
1967	198	24
1968	404	55
1969	812	121
1970	1,345	199
1971	2,064	324
1972	2,941	461
1973	3,665	640
1974	3,977	780
1975	4,083	956
1976	4,540	1,124
1977	4,887	1,539
1978	5,360	1,864
1979	6,306	2,463
1980	7,814	3,399
1981	10,280	4,953
1982	13,316	7,115
1983	15,690	8,992
1994	17,533	7,020
1993	17,629	6,951
1995	17,706	7,063
1992	17,748	7,210
1996	17,773	6,772
1991	17,896	7,514
1997	18,490	6,903
1990	19,321	8,374
1998	20,235	7,439
1984	20,369	12,066
1989	21,418	9,545
1988	23,543	11,353
1985	24,690	14,431
1987	26,038	13,889
2000	26,914	10,474
1986	27,069	15,126
2001	31,284	11,900
2002	35,631	13,504
2003	41,139	15,190
2004	42,999	14,406
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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