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> if it were only about childbirth and rearing, we'd see about equal numbers of females dropping out of tech as we do females dropping out of other professions,

> if it were only about childbirth and rearing, we'd see about equal numbers of females dropping out of tech as we do females dropping out of other professions, but we don't see that Is that really the case? I don't have any experience in fields other than tech, but it seems to me that tech doesn't like long gaps in one's career, "cause it moves so quickly". Maybe other fields don't have as much of an issue with this?

Mezzie 4y ago
The converse of that is that you CAN stay up to date on your own time and do tech projects when things come out/make open source contributions, etc. (dependent on specialty, of course). It's also decently easy to freelance or pick up side projects, whereas some other career fields it's very much a 'you're in or you're out' thing. Some other fields are much stricter in terms of what they'll accept for experience and/or a valid career path. Lawyers, doctors, etc. Academia's pretty punishing as well: Taking a break basically can mean adjunct hell for life depending on the discipline.