How to pronounce“cheryan”in English

Cheryan postulates a similar theory to explain why the percentage of women studying computer science has fallen since the mid-1980s.

What Cheryan's research reveals is that many girls just don't think they would feel comfortable in such a class.

As Cheryan herself suggests, requiring all students to take computer science not only would change the stereotype as to who does or doesn't take such classes,

But as Cheryan points out, the stereotypes are, at best, only partially true, and women who actually take classes in computer science

Over and over, Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are significantly more interested enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom, whether virtual or real-- so

In another experiment, Cheryan and her colleagues arranged for female undergraduates to talk to an actor pretending to be a computer science major.

In fact, Cheryan's research shows that young men tend not to major in English for the same reasons most women don't major in computer science.