Half of the women who leave (so roughly 25%) leave tech fields altogether. The numbers are fudged such that women in management are still considered as in tech

Half of the women who leave (so roughly 25%) leave tech fields altogether. The numbers are fudged such that women in management are still considered as in tech. Most "women in tech" numbers that you see include PMs, POs, IT workers, Support Engineers, etc. The male female divide is actually quite large in management. Women are promoted to management disproportionately (hypotheses include "better people skills" and a distrust of their technical ability). "We find that senior technical women are significantly more likely to be in a manager position (36.9%) than are men (19%); conversely, men at the high level are significantly more likely to be in an individual contributor position (80.6%) than are women (63.1%)." [0] "45 percent of women technologists felt like women were being “pushed” into execution roles, and 42 percent of women reported that women do not have equal access to technology creation roles." [0] [0] http://gender.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Senior-Technical-Women-A-Profile-of-Success.pdf http://gender.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Senior-Techni...