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There's tech and then there's "tech". Tech is getting a phone call at 3am that production is down and your code is where the logger says the problem is at and y
by thrown_22 4y ago
There's tech and then there's "tech". Tech is getting a phone call at 3am that production is down and your code is where the logger says the problem is at and you need to fix it _now_.
Then there's "tech": https://www.tiktok.com/@natasha.badger https://www.tiktok.com/@natasha.badger
The reason why people fall out of the first one is because you really have better things to do with your life. The reason why they fall out of the second is because it's bullshit and the people are there to be fired when something goes wrong and the gods of the market need blood to be appeased.
You can't raise a child when you're in tech because your social life is secondary. There are a lot more women in "tech".
I have no idea why.
- f17 4y ago
- BlargMcLarg 4y agoLeave your personal bones to pick somewhere else. You've still got a dozen other social media sites with similar messages to explain, way before 'incels' became prominent.
- dang 4y agoWould you please stop starting this whole thing up on HN again? It's not what this site is for, and we continue to ban such accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- johnny_b_g 4y ago
- Mezzie 4y ago> There are a lot more women in "tech". Women are generally raised to be better at social manipulation than men, and in those roles, that's more of an advantage. Men are generally raised to be better at shutting up and suffering. That'd be my theory anyway.
- commandlinefan 4y ago“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation”
- Mezzie 4y agoMen are desperate. Women are scared. Both are wildly unhealthy, and both are obsessed with comparing themselves to each other too. It's weird.
- tptacek 4y agoNo. Plenty of people raise children while performing in hardcore tech jobs.
- Mezzie 4y agoAnother thing I just thought of is that for a lot of women, they're the one who leave or step back from employment because of economic math: They make less than the cost of childcare and/or the benefit of the second income is marginal and the women earn less so the logical thing is for them to quit. I'd expect that women in tech earn are more likely to earn enough to be able to take the costs on the chin + are more likely to be the higher earner in a heterosexual couple (unless it turns out bi and het women in tech mostly marry men in tech).