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You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene
reifman (786887) writes "San Francisco's gender imbalance is so bad that a startup recently proposed flying women in from New York City for dates. But, if you're a straight male thinking of moving to Seattle to work in technology, think again. Seattle's gender ratio is even more imbalanced and it's about to get much worse for men. Amazon is building out enough space to employ 5% of the city population and its workforce is 75 percent male. By the end of 2014, Seattle will have 130 single men for every 100 single women."
It is harder then it seems.
There are a lot of Woman who just don't want to go into technology.
For many reasons.
1. Culturally: Woman should have jobs working directly with people, Men should have jobs avoiding people.
2. Geeky Culture: A lot of it is very male centrist, the idea of going to technology means you will need to interact with a culture many do not find appealing.
3. Catch 22: Woman do not want to go into technology because their isn't enough women in technology.
4. Peer pressure: If a woman shows an interest going to technology, their friends will try to dissuade them.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Considering that the number of H1Bs is limited to 0.0002% of the population, they might make a good scapegoat, but tthey make essentially zero impact on anything.