{"id":38778,"date":"2011-09-02T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=38778"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:04:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:04:40","slug":"does-biology-explain-why-there-are-so-few-women-in-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/02\/does-biology-explain-why-there-are-so-few-women-in-computer-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Biology Explain Why There Are So Few Women in Computer Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/1.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38780\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/1.png\" width=\"423\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/webinsecurity.net\/\">Terri Oda<\/a>, a PhD student in computer science, put together this fun and quick slideshow explaining why sex differences in math ability can&#8217;t explain why there are so few women in computer science. It&#8217;s great:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 425px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/2252025\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 5px 0 12px;\">Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/geekfeminism.org\/2009\/10\/17\/how-does-biology-explain-the-low-numbers-of-women-in-somputer-science-hint-it-doesnt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geek Feminism<\/a>. Thanks to Peter S. for the submission!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terri Oda, a PhD student in computer science, put together this fun and quick slideshow explaining why sex differences in math ability can&#8217;t explain why there are so few women in computer science. It&#8217;s great: Found at Geek Feminism. Thanks to Peter S. for the submission! Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[664,55,23692,290,140],"class_list":["post-38778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biology","tag-gender","tag-gender-biology","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38778"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58710,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38778\/revisions\/58710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}