Re:Women aren't interested.
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Women Leaving I.T.
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Agreed. This is the trend I see. It is NOT because "the money isn't there anymore" or because "they can't do it." That is such BS. I see tons of crap comments here, mostly from HS and college kids who have no real world experience and can't make any real observations on this exodus. The women I know in the software engineering field, and I don't know if SE is included in this general IT statement, but they are just not interested.
My fiance is one of these statistics. She is awesome at software design and development, but just hates it. So she is quitting and going into floral design.
I work with a good number of female SE's too, and most of them don't like it. The woman who sits in the cube next to me wants to be a nutritionist. She plans on going back to school to be one as soon as her kids get out of college.
There are 3 women down the hall that all work part-time. Not for medical reasons. Not because they watch thier kids. But because they just don't want to do it.
What they all have in common is that they were pushed/pulled into this field. My fiance was pushed into a CS degree because she was good at math and she didn't know what she wanted to do. The industry was itching to get women because they were taking a lot of flak for not having any. Also, the boom had a lot to do with it. You want your daughter to get a good paying technical job so she can be a modern woman and financially independent? Send her to college for computers; there was an endless market for IT pros.
But the truth is, they get into it and find out they just don't like it. I see this exodus as a good thing. Thousands (millions?) of women are finally getting out of a job they hate to so something they will truly love to do (well, hopefully they will love it). And that is more important than making a ton of money or having a equal balance of men and women in some arbitrary workforce.
And pls don't reply with "but I am a woman and I like it!" Obviously these are generalizations and I know there are a lot of women, esp here on slashdot, that love computers and/or software.
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Agreed. This is the trend I see. It is NOT because "the money isn't there anymore" or because "they can't do it." That is such BS. I see tons of crap comments here, mostly from HS and college kids who have no real world experience and can't make any real observations on this exodus. The women I know in the software engineering field, and I don't know if SE is included in this general IT statement, but they are just not interested.
My fiance is one of these statistics. She is awesome at software design and development, but just hates it. So she is quitting and going into floral design.
I work with a good number of female SE's too, and most of them don't like it. The woman who sits in the cube next to me wants to be a nutritionist. She plans on going back to school to be one as soon as her kids get out of college.
There are 3 women down the hall that all work part-time. Not for medical reasons. Not because they watch thier kids. But because they just don't want to do it.
What they all have in common is that they were pushed/pulled into this field. My fiance was pushed into a CS degree because she was good at math and she didn't know what she wanted to do. The industry was itching to get women because they were taking a lot of flak for not having any. Also, the boom had a lot to do with it. You want your daughter to get a good paying technical job so she can be a modern woman and financially independent? Send her to college for computers; there was an endless market for IT pros.
But the truth is, they get into it and find out they just don't like it. I see this exodus as a good thing. Thousands (millions?) of women are finally getting out of a job they hate to so something they will truly love to do (well, hopefully they will love it). And that is more important than making a ton of money or having a equal balance of men and women in some arbitrary workforce.
And pls don't reply with "but I am a woman and I like it!" Obviously these are generalizations and I know there are a lot of women, esp here on slashdot, that love computers and/or software.