Re:Looking at the distribution ... (Score 2, Informative)

I graduated from Purdue in CS in 2001. I believe that in most of my upper level classes there were maybe 4-6 girls half of which were American. I know at the time it was a real struggle to feed women into the program. Being one of the few girls in my classes wasn't really a challenge for me, but it was different (even from Chemical Enginnering where I started) One of the tidbits I heard at the time were that girls were afraid of technology. I suppose being on this side of tech, it seems hard to believe.