> I don’t agree with the notion that frontend is easier or that women shouldn’t pursue frontend. If the comparison is between teaching "CSS, HTML, and Javascri

> I don’t agree with the notion that frontend is easier or that women shouldn’t pursue frontend. If the comparison is between teaching "CSS, HTML, and Javascript" and "writing CRUD apps in Python," sure, they're about equal. I think people get their wires crossed a bit though with backend tasks where you might need to debug a race condition, or like, be a Linux expert. Since companies typically pay for backend resources, they're also more likely to assign engineers optimization tasks to reduce costs. These are basically Senior Backend SWE tasks, but people don't stop to consider what a comparable Senior Frontend task might be. And thinking about it, they're the kind of thing you'd also need to be a Linux expert at. Like, half the problems YSlow flagged on my projects were things Sysadmins needed to handle, like slow DNS, or ETags. So they typically got foisted on me, rather than the frontend engineer. > it’s a repeated trend that when women enter an industry, pay for that industry in particular goes down Honestly, I have no idea how one disentangles supply and demand effects, from cultural and regional effects. One random HBR article suggests that comparing locations by woman partipicaton rate reverses the trend, to where more women _increases_ local median wages: https://hbr.org/2018/01/when-more-women-join-the-workforce-wages-rise-including-for-men https://hbr.org/2018/01/when-more-women-join-the-workforce-w...