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		ajkjk on Oct 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2... Yeah, could be. But in a CS degree program in the 2000s/2010s, the upper classes seemed to be 80% people who started coding on graphics calculators in middle school, or something equivalent.

ghaff on Oct 15, 2021 [–]

I'm really talking about earlier. I didn't have a calculator until I started college :-) The first dip in bachelor's degrees in CS for women started in about 1985. [1] It dipped again beginning in about 2000.

[1]https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-declinin...

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