As a really fucking smart woman, I'm always stunned by the way that higher-level reasoning always goes out the window when it comes to these types of scare articles.

For one, who says that college enrollments are a good metric? After all, the title isn't "Why the Widening Gender Gap in HIGHER EDUCATION ENROLLMENTS in Computer Science." Which would only be accurate.

You can't be a doctor by learning on the internet, but you can learn to be a top-notch tech jockey.

And that's just one of the serious flaws these things *always* have...

Here's my take on this already-dead-and-rotten-but-still-fun-to-beat horse:

http://www.slash7.com/articles/2008/10/19/can-we-can-it-with-the-damn-where-are-the-women-crap-already