Saturday, June 05, 2004

1971 Survey on National Attitudes Towards Computers

46% of men strongly favored "a young person" entering "the computer field as a career" while 43% of women did. That's pretty close.

87% of both men (n=492) and women (n=509) believe that it is true that "most jobs in the computer field" are "good for women". Less but same for m and f was 81% who believed that it "offers good oportunities for high level professional people and scientists." Holy shit dude. 1971. Have we moved backwards? Women less frequently believed that it required lots of training (4% less) or that it was creative (14% less men!) than did men.