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We Had It in 1984 — Eighty-Five Point Five

Oregon

Eight routes in. Which ones reach you depends on where you stand.

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The high school courseDual enrollmentCommunity collegeRegistered apprenticeshipReturning after time outAn industry certificateMoving across where you already workSelf-taught with a portfolio
37.1%women's share of US computer science degrees in 1983–84
22.6%in 2021–22

The arc, in one table

Academic yearWomen's share of US computer science bachelor's degrees
1983–84 — the peak37.1%
1984–8536.8%
1985–8635.7%
2007–08 — the floor17.6%
2008–0917.8%
2021–22 — most recent22.6%

Computed from the degree counts published in NCES Digest of Education Statistics Table 325.35, which covers computer and information sciences. The table prints counts, not shares, so these percentages are our arithmetic on its numbers and can be checked against it directly.

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A woman typing at a desktop workstation. Licensed illustration — not a person in the statistic. Photo: #WOCinTech Chat (CC BY)

Distance in Oregon

21 of Oregon's 36 counties sit outside every metropolitan area. Distance changes which routes are physically reachable, and it lands hardest on anyone whose schedule is already spoken for by work or caregiving. The commuting zone named on each county page is the right search radius, and evening, weekend and online sections are the part of the catalog most often missed.

What Oregon runs on

Of 36 counties, the most common economic types are tourism and recreation (9), government (6), farming (5). Where the employers are hospitality, food service and seasonal trades, the technical work already here is the systems those operations run on, scheduling, inventory, dispatch, compliance, and that is a reachable first job.

What is already paid for

Programme names, amounts and deadlines change. These are the doors; verify current terms with the source before counting on a number.

By county

Baker CountyBenton CountyClackamas CountyClatsop CountyColumbia CountyCoos CountyCrook CountyCurry CountyDeschutes CountyDouglas CountyGilliam CountyGrant CountyHarney CountyHood River CountyJackson CountyJefferson CountyJosephine CountyKlamath CountyLake CountyLane CountyLincoln CountyLinn CountyMalheur CountyMarion CountyMorrow CountyMultnomah CountyPolk CountySherman CountyTillamook CountyUmatilla CountyUnion CountyWallowa CountyWasco CountyWashington CountyWheeler CountyYamhill County

All eight routes

Sources. Degree shares: computed from the counts in NCES Digest of Education Statistics Table 325.35 (computer and information sciences) and Table 318.10 for all fields; the table publishes counts rather than percentages, so the shares here are our arithmetic on its numbers and can be checked against it. Occupation shares and earnings: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey Tables 11 and 39, 2025 annual averages — the earnings figures are unadjusted occupational-group medians, not a controlled like-for-like comparison, and we say so. High school enrolment: Code.org Advocacy Coalition, State of Computer Science Education, 2023–24. AP exam composition: computed from the male and female counts in the College Board AP Program Summary Report 2025. Attrition: Accenture and Girls Who Code, Resetting Tech Culture, 2020 — the comparison there is women in technology against women in other work, not women against men, and we state it that way. Earnings effect of one course: Liu, Conrad & Blazar, EdWorkingPaper 24-904. County classifications: USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes; labour markets: 2020 Commuting Zones. County counts are computed from the committed county file at build time, not asserted.

Photographs on this campaign are licensed stock used as illustration — not portraits of the people inside the federal counts. Full credits: CREDITS.md.