Source: "Digital Domain: What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?" RANDALL STROSS, The New York Times, November 15, 2008.
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Comment: While the number of women has been increasing in science in general it seems to me that they are going into the biological sciences rather than the physical sciences. I recall early on in the introduction of computers, the field included many women, and the general explanation was that the demand was so great that the barriers to women were dropped.

Whatever the explanation, the unwillingness of women to study computer science is a loss to the nation! JAD