Reddit mentions of Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

> Biology is directly implicated here. Women have short fertile periods, and even if they don’t consciously intend to have children their instincts tell them they don’t have the option young men do to piss away years hunting mammoths that aren’t there.

I swear to god, sometimes I wonder if ESR is a great satirical writer or the crazy asshole he portrays himself as.

Like any sociological issue, this is clearly not cut and dry, and you can turn to extensive research which takes the time to actually examine all the components instead of relying on ESR, PhD armchair sociologist from the Mr. Magoo school of higher learning. Here's a good example of some research you could take a look at: http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Computing-Jane-Margolis/dp/0262133989 .

Read the book Unlocking the Clubhouse about a research study by the CS department at CMU about women in computer science. Everyone I know who has read it says it's very enlightening. The results of the study were a jump from 7% female enrollment to 42% in the computer science program, and it has nothing to do with "dumbing things down" as many sexists on here would believe.