It seems appropriate today to highlight the call by Wendy Hall for more females to get involved in computer science...
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@ChrisMayLA6 not new. But different in different countries, for example India. What is it about the UK and US that alienates women from studying CS? Gaming culture? Societal prejudice?
The other issue is: retention. Having graduated, how many (can) get a job in software development and stay there long enough to become senior engineers?
Attached. Edinburgh University CS4 photo, 1988. Two women -lovely as they were-, but only two. And that from an era where nobody left with £50k debts to worry about.
@stevel @ChrisMayLA6 two women in the dept of 30 when i started over 2 decades ago and about 4 now. . Interesingly women that stayed were apprentices seem to have more confidence than others. For a lot of women once they realise that there is no promotion & loneliness of isolation they leave. Also nowadays can hide the industrial toxicity of lack of diversity by opaqueness of outsourcing. Large companies can drop the risk here and operate outside of diversity expectation
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It seems appropriate today to highlight the call by Wendy Hall for more females to get involved in computer science...
Numbers of females being educated in computing has halved in the last 10 years, with now around 25% of computing students at university being women.
If AI & other technologies are to be more attuned to female needs & interests, this decline needs to be reversed & computing become less of a male dominated domain!
#AI #women #InternationalWomensDay
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/misogynistic-robots-a-real-risk-unless-more-girls-get-into-computing@ChrisMayLA6 So its an old topic- advertise & recruit for part time and job share software roles. Many SW roles have been harsh & abusive even for men - eg games industry - overnight shifts competive cost saving always available environments and then think of what women are expected to do in society everyday and their aspirations for a good quality of life. Women want a well paid meaningful job with manageable hours -men pushed women out of these, as there arent enough to go round..
