Today on the birthday of legendary female computer scientist Grace Hopper, inventor of the compiler and the term "debugging", among other achievements - I ask the Hacker News community, why is the computer science overwhelmingly male and becoming increasingly so as time goes on? The hacker community seems to be absolutely comfortable in this state, and to me that's disturbing. Diversity creates innovation - and for an industry that prides itself as innovators, the silicon-valley idea pool seems like a dangerous closed-loop.

This has been an issue for a while, so I'm posting this somewhat dated yet historically relevant article from 1999 which brings up this very issue, an issue which was never answered.

You can probably skip the first two sections defining and explaining hackers and hacking.