Female Software Engineer Population
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A Female Software Engineer Population is a Software Engineer Population that is a female worker population (of female software engineers).
- Example(s):
- See: Male Software Engineer Population.
References
2014
- https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding
- QUOTE: ...
Modern computer science is dominated by men. But it hasn't always been this way. A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer science was growing faster than the number of men. But in 1984, something changed. The percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even as the share of women in other technical and professional fields kept rising. What happened? We spent the past few weeks trying to answer this question, and there's no clear, single answer.
But here's a good starting place: The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers.
- QUOTE: ...
Modern computer science is dominated by men. But it hasn't always been this way. A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer science was growing faster than the number of men. But in 1984, something changed. The percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even as the share of women in other technical and professional fields kept rising. What happened? We spent the past few weeks trying to answer this question, and there's no clear, single answer.
2001
- (Gürer & Camp, 2001) ⇒ Denise Gürer, and Tracy Camp. (2001). “Investigating the Incredible Shrinking Pipeline for Women in Computer Science.” Final report–NSF project 9812016