[BretLudwig]

((It isn't they can't. It's that they have better options, like nursing, or
corporate jobs where verbal over spatial cognition is higher in priority
and where they don't have to lift heavy weights and do stuff men
demonstrably do better. Whereas few self respecting males have any
interest in running the vaginocratic gantlet that is nursing school-only
flight attendants have a lower heterosexual quotient amongst their male
sector of occupational percentage. Only geeks that can't consider any
alternative go into EE/CS programs in this country anymore, H-1B has so
devastated the profession. CIVIL engineering pays better than EE/CS now!
Mechanical, aeronautical, chemical are all still relatively undevastated,
but EE/CS is a lost cause. Bret.))


Declining Computer Science Enrollment and H-1b
[Randall Burns]

"College Students Reporting Interest in Computer Science as a Major

This graphic appeared in an article about declining enrollment amount
women in Computer Science. The issue is ultimately jobs.

€œShe lamented the recent decision of one of her outstanding computer
science students who chose to major in nursing because of what the student
perceived as better prospects for finding employment.€�[What Has Driven
Women Out of Computer Science? By Randall Stross, New York Times, November
16, 2008 ]

When you look at the graphic on the left, keep in mind, 1998 was the year
of the big expansion of H-1b visas, fueled by corporate campaign
donations.

I think the reason weve seen a steeper decline in enrollment of women,
is women often have a wider variety of skills-and thus employment options
than men who major in Computer science. Women are more likely, for
example, to have the high level of verbal SAT scores one might expect from
people going into Law School or some business school programs. When
opportunities in Computer Science collapse, it makes sense for those who
have other options to take them.

Frankly, folks like Phil Gramm were complete idiots claiming that each
H-1b worker would create many jobs. How much longer must this insane
experiment continue?"

((Answer: Until white Americans-and that fraction of the nonwhite
population that can actually think and act in its own interest-rise up and
throttle the diversipunks. Bret.))


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