Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
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Re: Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
#2~50% of undergrads at Stanford are female. ~30% of new Stanford computer science majors are female.
Re: Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
#3With their high number of (rejected) applications and subjective criteria they can of course shape these statistics any way they want.
So is this progress or Stanford appearing progressive? There is no way to tell.
Re: Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
#4~50% of undergrads at Stanford are female. ~30% of new Stanford computer science majors are female.
Ok, so women still choose CS at a smaller proportion than men do...that's alright for now.
What's awesome is that women are now choosing CS more than any other major, and Stanford is providing them an environment where it's cool to do so. That's incredible.
Re: Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
#5~50% of undergrads at Stanford are female. ~30% of new Stanford computer science majors are female.
They call it Simpson's Paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
Re: Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
#6~50% of undergrads at Stanford are female. ~30% of new Stanford computer science majors are female.
They call it Simpson's Paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
I don't think this is really a case of Simpson's paradox.
What we're seeing is that female students at Stanford are less concentrated on a single major than the male ones. As a result, their top pick isn't as high as the male top pick. I'd guess that the distribution of female majors is higher entropy than the male one.
Simpson's paradox would be if there was some second confounding variable that corelated to gender which was causing these results. There might be, but I'm not seeing it.
Re: Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
#7With their high number of (rejected) applications and subjective criteria they can of course shape these statistics any way they want. So is this progress or Stanford appearing progressive ? There is no way to tell.
At Stanford, undergrads are admitted generally to the school, then they get to pick whichever major they like. Most students don't pick a major until sophomore or junior year.
Stanford accepts 50% women and more of those women are picking to become CS majors after they get in, when they didn't just a few years ago. This is actually progress.
Re: Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
#8With their high number of (rejected) applications and subjective criteria they can of course shape these statistics any way they want. So is this progress or Stanford appearing progressive ? There is no way to tell.
You doubt university administrators sincerity ;)
I've noticed very few of these articles look at the recent past ('80s) when women were a significant percentage of programmers. I'm too young but I have the feeling working conditions were much better back then.
Re: Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
#9~50% of undergrads at Stanford are female. ~30% of new Stanford computer science majors are female.
So more than 50% of Stanford undergrads are CS? Shit. Does that not sound like aa glut?
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#10This is also true of MIT. http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/gender/index.html
According to the article "It was unclear if Stanford is the only major U.S. university where computer science is the top major for female students."
That link was the top hit for https://www.google.com/search?q=mit+women+enrollment
This is a pretty sad thing to see in something purporting to be journalism. I can't blame the really writer though. They probably only had 30 minutes to get something out the door to drive their view count...