Computer Science's Bad Rep With The Ladies

The unfortunate reality of gender equality in the computer science industry is that women are choosing to contribute to this industry less and less. Women have always been a minority in the computer science industry. Nonetheless, there do appear to be some social pressures that may compel women to look elsewhere when pursuing their personal careers. Especially with the rise of video games in modern culture, occupations in computer science have a stigma of being for nerdy guys with no social life. While computer science is a very successful industry, the growth of the industry has been accompanied by a growth in this social stigma despite increased efforts to give women more and more opportunities; thus, the issue of gender inequality in the computer science industry is not so much a matter of encouraging women to pursue careers in this industry but of changing the way that society views computer scientists in general.