• Slayer 🦊@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    You could go gay. That would open up a lot of back doors

    Shitty jokes aside. I’m actually surprised the projector says 2020. There were quite a few girls in my class in 2019

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      America is a weird place, Europe is more balanced in general. Back in 2000 we had more of a 60%-40% split in computer science.

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        I’m guessing this picture wasn’t taken in America, given what looks like Cyrillic text on the projector. Could be wrong, though.

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        Nah, it’s definitely a thing in the Netherlands. I got my degree a couple years ago and we only had a few girls.

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        It’s super obvious to me as an American that this is somewhere in Europe. If this were in America over half the class would be Asian or Indian.

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          I’m from Europe (and studied CS there). My classes for some courses were about a third Indian, a third Chinese, with locals and other foreigners combined being the final third.

          Of course, I’m pretty sure this photo wasn’t taken anywhere near me either. For me, the clue to that was the Cyrillic on the slides.

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      I am gay and have a master’s in computer science. Believe me, there wasn’t much for me in class either.

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      Tbh I’m not supprised I graduated in 2015 with a networking degree and there were 3 girls in my class group (3 or 4 courses with a lot of the same classes) which was about 150-200 students.

      Conversely the nursing classes that were in the same building those numbers were flipped

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        If they were just odd they’d have a lot more success because you kind of have to be odd to be good at CS.

        It’s more the rapey, incely, tendency to see women as a different and incoherent species that has the women in CS either walking around with their hackles raised all the time or quietly slipping out the back door.

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      It was like this in my CS department a decade ago, too. There was me, one other gal, and for a while a German exchange student who wanted nothing to do with either of us in the entire grad program. I learned to talk a lot louder over the course of that program.

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    Girls don’t wanna work in CS because CS boys always be treating the class like a hookup scene. And it’s not every boy, but if there’s 2 girls and 20 boys in the class, and 10% of the boys are being creeps, then you’ve already got a problem.

    Parents have gotta stop teaching their sons to see class as a dating opportunity. On campus, sure, but not in the classroom.

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    You realize there are other departments, right? The archaeology and art history students are just as nerdy and horny.

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    I work on software that you’re probably using right now, and my company is like 60% women. It’s wonderful. We spend a lot of our (very few) meetings talking about our feelings, discussing hair and skincare, and gossiping about each other’s love lives. The inter-team drama sometimes gets pretty funny though. We’ve been in a passive-aggressive fued with another team since some time last year.

    It’s also extremely gay. Everyone always says they love working with me, but all i do is go around flirting with my work crushes and having fun.