{"id":2884,"date":"2014-10-21T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2014-10-21T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:13:42","slug":"graph-of-the-week-women-in-comp-sci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/10\/21\/graph-of-the-week-women-in-comp-sci\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph of the Week &#8211; Women in Comp Sci"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2885\" style=\"width: 633px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/10\/gotw-compsci-1966-2010.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2885\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/10\/gotw-compsci-1966-2010.png\" alt=\"Source data via NSF (Tab 33)\" width=\"633\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/10\/gotw-compsci-1966-2010.png 633w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/10\/gotw-compsci-1966-2010-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source data via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/statistics\/nsf13327\/content.cfm?pub_id=4266&amp;id=2\" target=\"_blank\">NSF<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/statistics\/nsf13327\/tables\/tab33.xls\" target=\"_blank\">Tab 33<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NPR has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2014\/10\/21\/357629765\/when-women-stopped-coding\" target=\"_blank\">short piece<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2014\/10\/17\/356944145\/episode-576-when-women-stopped-coding\" target=\"_blank\">new podcast<\/a> up on Planet Money in which they try to answer the question of why the fraction of women going into computer science has been declining almost continuously since peaking in 1984. Their answer is twofold: (1) home computers were marketed first and foremost as toys for boys during the first major wave of consumer uptake, which in turn effected the skill-sets that young men and women brought with them to college, and (2) geek culture, as portrayed by mainstream culture, has always been fairly male-centric, with\u00a0few exceptions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It&#039;s a Unix system\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dFUlAQZB9Ng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Personally, my theory is that computers emit less of an estrogen vibe. What&#8217;s yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has a short piece and a new podcast up on Planet Money in which they try to answer the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}