famousringo said:
Just because some women are thick-skinned enough to put up with it is no excuse for driving away those who aren't. I used to think feminism was largely a solved problem. The major battles were won and we just needed to wait for the dinosaurs to die out. Pay equality has a way to go, but it's getting better, so why worry? But not all numbers are moving in the right direction. Female Computer Science grads peaked at 35% way back in 1984 and have fallen down to 12% in recent years. Women representation in top creative positions in the film industry are in the mid-teens and falling. You can't convince me that women stink at math and logic or don't see a useful career in computers, or that they aren't interested in making movies. So I can only conclude that without enough feminist pressure for reform, a boy's club culture is re-asserting itself in certain industries, and it makes the environment toxic for women in ways both subtle and obvious. |
I went to an all womens college, there was virtually no pressure, intimidation or boys-club culture to speak of, and yet the comp sci course i took was the only course on the entire campus with less than 15 students
Can you say with a straight face that the women of that college chose to avoid computer science because of "boys club", when not a single student is male, and the vast majority of faculty staff were female?
Truth is simply that comp sci was an unpopular course, people preffered and actively saught out other courses that they found more interesting.
So kindly don't play the numbers game trying to blame percentages of people taking certain courses on men, because that's bullshit, the reason is simply free will.
