> There is an exception, though, which is that female engineers may still get promoted into management (...not going to speculate on reasons right now). This i

> There is an exception, though, which is that female engineers may still get promoted into management (...not going to speculate on reasons right now). This is one of those things I'd not go out of my way to bring up, for obvious reasons, but yes, I've noticed this too. Best I can tell it's because more of them (as a percentage) have entering management as a primary goal and actively work toward it from day one, which just means that, for most non-FAANG companies, they're playing the making-money-and-gaining-status game smarter than their male peers, so it's not even a dig, really—kinda the opposite.