Is Programming/Engineering male oriented?

[IWTBF115]

Am I the only one that has noticed that things like Com-Sci and Engineering are extremely male oriented? I know very few females who enjoy the feild or want to have a career in it. Makes me kind of sad actually.

[Karkat]

A lot of it is just the way society presents it to the sexes. Women are largely discouraged from it. I myself am personally interested in both, but have been discouraged before.

[IWTBF115]

'Tis a sad thought.

[CosmicNoodle]

Words from an expert here.

I go to an engineering college, I study engineering 5 days a week for 7 hours a day, out of a college of 1500 students, there are 4 women here.

yes, engineering is male orientated.

[James Dean]

Most of it is based on family and their upbringing of being told this isn't a female friendly career. Just the stigma around it. The same as their are less male flight attendants. The way it is right now. Doesn't mean there aren't any and you can't be one, just it's a rarity.

[SethfromMI]

well it is def a male dominated field, but it is not like women cannot go into that field

[Silicate Wielder]

It's just been that with how it's been presented the appeal has been more common among men than women. Although my school has been doing stuff to get EVERYONE trying to do it, we've had like two coding days already this year, so who knows? maybe we'll start seeing more diversity in this field of work.

[vittyvirus]

A lot of it is just the way society presents it to the sexes. Women are largely discouraged from it. I myself am personally interested in both, but have been discouraged before.
I see no reason that why females shouldn't programme. It has been over and over proven that females are at least equal to males in every field. But it seem females themselves don't opt. for such...

[Human]

I think it appeals to men more, and I think despite people creating kind of 'affirmative action' by campaigning specifically for women to join, at the end of the day, many women just don't want to

[ComfortableInChaos]

Honestly, I've noticed this a lot. Women in VIDEO GAMES, in general, isn't very common. The only couple women I can think of who were main playable characters are Lara Croft and (Zero Suit) Samus. I can't think of many other women... And Lara Croft was made to use sex appeal to attract gamers. I'm glad more women are going in the video game/coding/programming industry because of how many female influences the games will have. I don't care to see boobs flashing out in the middle of the screen (like Bayonetta, *cough cough*) which is why I'm all for more female programmers.

[Typhlosion]

I don't care to see boobs flashing out in the middle of the screen (like Bayonetta, *cough cough*) which is why I'm all for more female programmers.

Programming has nothing to do with character and video game design, really.

[Damon16b]

Yeah, sadly I think that it is, but then there are people like Lady Ada, who have made many great contributions!

[David_L2]

think times are changing, but it would probably still be a mostly male dominated field

[queenofcontrariety]

Hi. Just seeing this now. But female engineers do exist. We're few and far between but it's getting better. And men are not better at these jobs, they just try to keep women out of br hem but honestly I'm just as capable as the guys I know in the field.

[phuckphace]

there's nothing preventing women from joining the field in large numbers. it's dominated by men mainly because when presented with the opportunity most women choose different careers of their own volition.

what I don't get is why feminists complain about there being too few women in STEM fields when they themselves went for some useless liberal arts degree in "journalism" (i.e. blogging about male privilege on their MacBooks). to put it another way, why are most of the more intelligent women making such idiotic career choices? if you can afford a hipster degree from a hipster college, why not a real STEM degree from a real college?

[ImCoolBeans]

I deleted the argument in this thread, please keep that at a minimum. If it continues infractions will be given out.

[vittyvirus]

Does anybody know about Jade Raymond? Among other things, she's quite beautiful... ;)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Raymond

[Silicate Wielder]

Hi. Just seeing this now. But female engineers do exist. We're few and far between but it's getting better. And men are not better at these jobs, they just try to keep women out of br hem but honestly I'm just as capable as the guys I know in the field.
I can agree on this, in my CSE class we have two girls, and they certainly are able to do just as good if not better than the guys in my class who actually try to get stuff learned and get projects done.

[phuckphace]

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