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>“Workplace conditions, a lack of access to key creative roles, and a sense of feeling stalled” are the main reasons women leave tech. Based on what I've seen
by pascalxus 10y ago
>“Workplace conditions, a lack of access to key creative roles, and a sense of feeling stalled” are the main reasons women leave tech.
Based on what I've seen over the last 10 years working at a variety of software companies: both men and women get mistreated, roughly equally, at least at the places I've worked. People often assume the reason they are being mistreated is due to some factor of themselves (race, gender, etc), but this is the fundamental attribution fallacy (see social pyschology) that colors our perceptions.
But, i haven't worked at every company. Perhaps, there are some where egregious conditions do exist, as mentioned in the article.
As long as the talent oversupply exists, it will be hard for men & women affected by these adverse conditions to move to companies with better cultures.
- itsdrewmiller 10y agoBut women are leaving at a higher rate than men. And if you look at the diversity stats that come out it is usually the case that women are less represented in management than even tech, which suggests their complaints about access/stalling may be more correct in aggregate.
- wry_discontent 10y agoThere was an article a while back (I can't link it right now because I'm in mobile) that showed that even when they masked voices, women did worse in programming interviews. The problem? They didn't bounce back from failure as well as men did. They failed and quit, while the men continued to fail until they had success. How can you know this isn't a similar effect?
- wry_discontent 10y agohttps://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-mask-gender-in-technical-interviews-heres-what-happened/ https://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-ma... This is the article I mentioned.
- pottersbasilisk 10y agoMen are often the breadwinner and socially conditioned to provide for their families so they might be forced to stay, even when they want to quit, and you have to stay to even have a chance at a promotion unless you were born an elite like Elizabeth Holmes.