Female share of BA Degrees by College Major, 1971-2021.
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What is up with that CompSci spike in the 80's? Well a few of them jumped up around that time, but that's the only one that crashed back down to earth.
The new home computer market meant there was an explosion of interest in and availability of computers and jobs.
On the other hand mini computers didn't require any kind of deep theoretical learning.
Basically CS in the 80s was really easy. Over time it's required more and more specialized knowledge and that favors the people who can put in the work and evaluations are on merit. If your term assignment is to code up a compiler and you turn in an essay on how compilers discriminate against historically marginalized architectures then you fail.