Women in Computer Science

Although many people believe that the relatively small number of women in Computer Science poses a big problem, I disagree. I believe the real problem is the large number of men in our discipline who make no contribution. Of the aspiring CS majors that I know, many—if not most—believe that CS means programming. That is not true. Computer Science is the theory of computing and the study of solving problems programatically. Based on that definition, most CS majors hate Computer Science; they just enjoy programming. If those men all moved to a more suitable major then we would not have many computer scientists at all, male or female.