Probably . Mostly just ranting about a furry . <| sep |> Still waiting on 9 . 3 . 3 , not ready to lose my jb . <| sep |> Take a look around the very first comp sci courses in school . They aren ' t exactly equally balanced . The problem isn ' t that women try to pursue STEM and fail , it ' s that they don ' t pursue it at all . Their passion is killed long before it begins . This is part , but not all of the problem . I teach CS at a major Australian university . Our introductory CS programme accepts quite a large number of female candidates , usually the percentage is 3040 % female . But a disturbingly large number of them drop out until it ' s common to see zero women or only one woman in a third year class of 50 people . I ' ve been active in trying to figure out why . Quite often the responses I get reek of impostor syndrome . I ' m not good enough , I don ' t understand anything , I ' m not sure I will do well etc . their results belie these statements . I have one theory CS courses tend to breed a hypercompetitive macho culture among the young male students fresh out of high school who have been programming since they were 10 . In their race to outdo each other , they end up alienating a lot of the other students , male and female . And , because female students already feel the societal currents pushing them away from STEM , they ' re more likely to drop out due to impostor syndrome rather than persevere .