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My first thought in response to your comment was "Well, most jerks are men". But I was reading about Berkson's Paradox [1] earlier and I think it might apply he

My first thought in response to your comment was "Well, most jerks are men". But I was reading about Berkson's Paradox [1] earlier and I think it might apply here. There's probably an even distribution of bad behavior between both men and women, but the selection bias in programming and technology limits the sample so that it skews towards males who behave badly. This doesn't add much to your comment, other than offering a potential explanation as to why women in technology can have a hard time. Unfortunately I don't see a solution to the problem either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox

maroonblazer 11y ago
Perhaps I'm misreading Berkson's Paradox but I'm not sure that explains all of it. We know men engage in risk-seeking behaviors more-so than women, in aggregate. Couple that with teenage men/boys being more likely to be socially isolated and all the other factors associated with the adolescent/pubescent lifestage (hormones raging, identity issues, etc) - again, in aggregate - it's easy to see why you'd get more males than females engaging in this kind of behavior.
dahart 11y ago
> There's probably an even distribution of bad behavior between both men and women... We're talking about sexual harassment, not just jerks or any old "bad behavior". There is not an even distribution of sexual harassment. http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2011/03/1205ff7b-5b6c-40ab-ac78-9356422cd451.pdf http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2011/03/1205ff7b-5b6c-40... http://www.aware.org.sg/training/wsh-site/14-statistics/ http://www.aware.org.sg/training/wsh-site/14-statistics/