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Isn't the field heavily skewed towards males as well? It wouldn't surprise me if 94% of software developers being male was perfectly true. Think about how many
by sniglom 9y ago
Isn't the field heavily skewed towards males as well?
It wouldn't surprise me if 94% of software developers being male was perfectly true. Think about how many female software developers (not managers) you've seen per guy within IT.
At least for me, it's seldom that I meet female developers. At the workplaces I've been, it's approximately those numbers, perhaps even less.
- Qwertious 9y agoIIRC the female developer stats were in the double-digits, varying somewhere like 20-40%. A 6% rate is therefore unrepresentative.
- sniglom 9y agoWhere are those numbers from? Those numbers would imply 20-40% at computer science in universities as well. AFAIK that isn't the case in Europe or the US.
- pjmlp 9y agoDepends where in Europe. In Portugal and Spain, many universities are full of females on CS degrees. Already in the 90's my faculty had around 10%. FOSDEM also has a good presence of females per room. Meanwhile in Germany they seem not to like CS.
- EGreg 9y agoCare to back this up with links and data?
- forgottenpass 9y agoThink about how many female software developers (not managers) you've seen per guy within IT. Why would I compare the number of women in one department to the number of men in another? Such a number doesn't mean anything.
- dagw 9y agoAnecdotally it seems to vary massively between different workplaces. Smaller internet and games companies seem to have a much bigger male skew than larger, "boring enterprise" companies.
- david-cako 9y agoLarger companies have more time, energy, and money to worry about their hiring demographics. Everyone else just wants smart people in chairs in front of keyboards.