And so does Computer Science. The New York Times reports that despite growing numbers of women in math and other engineering disciplines, they are less likely to pursue CS.

The prevailing theory in the article is that women assume they need to already be proficient in programming and fall into that ‘hacker’ stereotype in order to be good at or enjoy CS. That’s too bad. Being good at math helps, a lot, but really the only attribute necessary is wanting to solve interesting problems using computers. Hollywood does sure have a bizarre picture of what it’s like to be a developer, though.