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Half of women leave by age 35. How many men leave by age 35? Whats the baseline? Why doesn’t the article state this? Is 50% low?
by nonethewiser 2mo ago
Half of women leave by age 35.
How many men leave by age 35? Whats the baseline? Why doesn’t the article state this? Is 50% low?
- pfannkuchen 2mo agoWhat percent of them are married to men in tech and then leave the industry after they have kids, since they can afford to live on a single income at that point even in HCOL areas? I would guess a lot.
- gracefulliberty 2mo agoWould also like to see the stats of men who do the same.
- x313 2mo agoFollowing the citations, the original source is this 2013 paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4279242/pdf/nihms580781.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4279242/pdf/nihms58... The paper compares women in STEM to women outside STEM (as the baseline). However, the paper tracks a cohort of high school/college students from 1979, meaning they would've reached 35 by the 1990s.
- neuronexmachina 2mo agoFrom one of the linked sources: https://womenhack.com/women-in-tech-statistics/ https://womenhack.com/women-in-tech-statistics/ >Women leave tech at 45% higher rates than men. [Accenture, 2024]