I'll counter your anecdotal evidence with my own anecdotal evidence, which is that I've observed either the opposite or no difference in the companies I've work

I'll counter your anecdotal evidence with my own anecdotal evidence, which is that I've observed either the opposite or no difference in the companies I've worked for (I'm a man in IT in NYC). Either way, anecdotal, so shrug. But "a generation of men who've been sacrificed" is definitely something I've never seen signs of in the IT industry. A separate thread has a much more plausible explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686822