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Bachelor of Computer Science Degrees (Men vs. Women)

189275882_4bc764b320_sBy Grizzo on Mar 10, 2007
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Academic year ending Bachelors Men Bachelors Women
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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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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 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

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Anonymous says

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

posted about 1 year ago

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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

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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 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

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