Major of Choice

Women are vastly outnumbered in the field of Computer Science. Several of my CS classes in college have been all males. While the concern over dwindling numbers of women in Computer Science is valid, a more pressing concern is the discrepancy of wages between men and women. On average, women still make over $10,000 less than men. Additionally, CS is not the only field that is male dominated. Notably, Aviation and many of the Engineering disciplines are just as skewed. Some of the wage gap may be explained by major choice. Thus achieving the goal of making CS a more balanced field between men and women would likely also have a positive effect on the wage gap.