Clive Thompson identifies the 1983–84 academic year, when women reached 37.1% of computer science bachelor’s degrees, as the point after which their share began falling.

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"Clive Thompson identifies the 1983–84 academic year, when women reached 37.1% of computer science bachelor’s degrees, as the point after which their share began falling."

Thompson uses the 1984 inflection as the starting point for explaining how home computing, unequal early exposure, academic capacity, and computing culture interacted.

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Source title Coders

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

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