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I knew the field is predominantly male but only 5.2% women? Wow. I'm curious: is it worse or better in real world? Edit: fix the number to use "% of question r

• heavyset_go 4y ago
  I worked for companies/clients where there were teams of all men and, in the case of smaller organizations, literally only men worked there. I don't think it's as extreme as ~5%, though.
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• SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
  Wdym real world? Stack overflows 2021 developer survey says broadly it’s 5.31% of respondents identified as women. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#demographics-gender https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#demographics-...
  • thrdbndndn 4y ago
    > Wdym real world Means that this survey may not be as representative. But with the info you gave, it might be.
    • heavyset_go 4y ago
      I definitely wouldn't consider StackOverflow users to be a representative sample of people working in software development/tech/etc.
• vagrantJin 4y ago
  > knew the field is predominantly male > only 5.2% women? You answered your own question though. There is no magical answer. What is curious though is why you think any of that matters. Its like saying: I know zebras have stripes but do zebras have stripes only?
  • thrdbndndn 4y ago
    My point is "I know it's bad but not this bad". Like, I thought it would be more like 10% or something. And I was not asking for any "magical answer", just wanted to know if this survey is representative enough (others have already answered it, so all good now.)