Women Shun Computer Science As Gender Gap Grows

Here'a an amazing story.With many more women on college campus than men you'd think that the numbers would be showing up in all majors.Wrong.The Boston Globe reports:

As a young high school teacher in 1982, Diane Souvaine leapt into graduate school for computer science having taken only one class in the subject.


Computers, she believed, offered an exhilarating way to apply her math skills to real-world problems. And because computer science was coming into its own in the feminist age, she also hoped it would be more welcoming to women than her undergraduate math department.

Today, Souvaine chairs the Tufts University computer science department, which has more female professors than male. But few younger women have followed in her generation's footsteps. Next spring, when 22 computer science graduates accept their Tufts diplomas, only four will be women.

No word yet on what the Women's Studies departments will say about this one.Maybe,they will say it's a secret conspiracy against women.