Where are all the women who forsake social outings to stay up
all night writing computer code and read science fiction? Most
of those computer "geeks" (as the stereotype goes) live in
countries that mandate math and science courses through the
teenage years. That's one of the conclusions of a new study
exploring the gender gap in computer science, a profession
dominated by men. Professors of sociology at the University of
California at San Diego and Western Washington released a study
Friday that showed that women are vastly underrepresented in
computer science in 21 nations--Germany, Czech Republic and
Belgium being among the top countries with few women in tech.
That is because those as well as most countries are influenced
by the notion that men and women are naturally suited to
different occupations. But what's different is that their
schools do not require curriculum in math and science, and
therefore encourage fulfilling those roles, according to the
findings. In South Korea, a nation with the highest n