[billybudd]

. ''These people would just sit in the front of the class and ask these complicated questions. I had no idea what they were talking about."

Jeez, this article makes women look like retards. I think the issue is that computer science is a nerd culture and women don't want to be nerds. Pure and simple. Also, I don't see a need to "fix" this "problem". Why is it so hard for these control-freaks to accept that people will do what they want to do? Do we need women programmers? Is this something we as a society cannot live without? Sheesh.

[wouldntbprudent]

Women *can't* really be nerds. Not like men.

You have to be smart to be nerdy. Smart women usually don't have all the other characteristics that one thinks of as nerdy. Even if they're homely, lack fashion sense, or whatever. They just never cut it as real geeks.