It is no surprise to anyone that the U.S. and many other countries have emphasized a STEM-oriented educational system, particularly in the past few decades. With that have come a lot of complicated narratives around humanities, arts, and social science education. Many educational programs in the arts and humanities have faced substantial budget cuts, for that STEM emphasis.
Regardless of how emphasized and well-resourced/funded programs in engineering/computer science have been, the gender disparity among these fields is still astronomical (still an understatement). I completed my undergraduate degree in Informatics (a CS-adjacent field) and I still remember being in programming classes of 200+ people with only a dozen or so individuals who identified as women or non-binary. Obviously, when these students go into the workforce, this disparity is exacerbated. While there may be an myth of the idea of access when it comes to education, these social, political, and economic complexities further the notion of an embedded patriarchial layer into software, technologies, and the digital world at large.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/26/pennsylvania-book-ban-girls-who-code
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