[LRUG] Ru3y Manor diversity

[Paul Wilson]

On 20 Sep 2011, at 11:46, Glenn Gillen wrote:

> On 20 Sep 2011, at 11:45, Jordi Noguera Leon wrote:
> 
>> It's going to be difficult to have more women working as developers given that not many study computer science (or other technical degrees). For instance, when I started uni there were something like 6 girls out of 100 (or 150 don't remember) who started CS. I studied maths and for us it was more like 30 guys / 20 girls, although I know at least 10 girls dropped off...
> 
> Yeah, I think I only had ~4 out of ~100 in my course.


There's feedback loops operating: the more women drop out of the profession, the more male it becomes;  the more male the profession becomes, the less attractive is seems as a career for students choosing their courses.

(Also, you don't  need a CS degree to become a good programmer.)