craig@dcl-cs.UUCP (Craig Wylie) (02/26/86)
Has anybody else noticed a sharp drop in the number of Women applying to study CS ? Here at the University of Lancaster the percentage is down to under 10% (on a good day). We are currently examining ways of rectifying this problem, any hints from others would be most welcome. Followup to net.followup as we only seem to receive this newsgroup when it cross-posted. Craig. -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!craig| Post: University of Lancaster, DARPA: craig%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Department of Computing, JANET: craig@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4146 | LA1 4YR Project: Cosmos Distributed Operating Systems Research Group
rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) (02/28/86)
In article <1028@dcl-cs.UUCP> craig@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Craig Wylie) writes: >Has anybody else noticed a sharp drop in the number of Women applying >to study CS ? > > <more, down to 10%, etc.> > >We are currently examining ways of rectifying this problem, any hints >from others would be most welcome. a) Has anybody tried to find out for what they ARE applying to study instead? That would seem to be a good indicator. b) On a related note -- when I attended the University of Mississippi a few years ago, people (both sexes) were flooding into the CS school in their junior year; abandoning marketing and management majors right and left. Turns out that CS was a little tough for most of these people, who seemed to be strictly $$$-motivated (or should have been tough, but that is a sore subject best left unbroached here). Anyway, I've heard rumors from various colleges across the U.S. that people are now turning away from the technical fields in droves to go back into the "classier" areas of business -- high-level management, banking & finance, brokerage, etc. Seems that the YUPPie craze has enforced the idea that the "in" professions are more along these lines, and that there is much more potential money and upward-mobility in these fields. -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj