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Does anyone have better data on why they leave tech? It seems like there should be a survey, or a summary of exit interviews, or something. I also wonder what
by strken 4y ago
Does anyone have better data on why they leave tech? It seems like there should be a survey, or a summary of exit interviews, or something.
I also wonder what the base rate for women leaving a career path within 10 to 20 years is, compared to the base rate for men.
My personal and possibly untrendy opinion is that tech jobs aren't flexible or predictable enough when you're trying to start a family or raise young kids[0]. Most of the burden of this work falls on women, so you'd expect them to leave in droves for jobs that don't make on-call shifts mandatory and don't ask staff to work on the weekend to get the Frobnizzle project ready for integration testing with the Dunder Mifflin team.
If the way your company works is fundamentally hostile to employees with kids, I don't think any surface-level D&I initiative is going to fix the structural problems of sexism and ageism.
[0] Something which happens around 30 to 40, e.g. 10 to 20 years into an average career.
- anon291 4y agoMen don't leave career paths because men have no choice to leave a career. Ask any man with kids if he can quit his job to stay at home. Most will just laugh at the question. The answer is obviously no. Women almost invariably marry men with more or at least equal earning potential. For women in tech, one of the consequences is that basically their husbands have the means for them to quit work, and many make that choice.