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The implication or this post is that the ratio of women among immigrants was lower than the indigenous population, and thus the influx of immigrants drove down the percentage of women in tech. I am not aware of other countries, but in India at least we have a higher percentage of women in IT than in the USA. So is it really true that female representation among these immigrants is lower than the indigenous population, as this post seems to imply?

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Anecdotally, I've encountered more Indian men than women in IT in USA. I'd guess that men emigrate more than women (and women who emigrate tend to come with their spouse), but I don't know for sure.

There are definitely more indian men than women in IT, by a big margin. But to take an example, Google currently has about 18-20% women in technical roles, i.e. 1 in 5. So assuming more than 1 in 5 immigrants in Google were women, you cannot argue that immigrants are the cause of the low ratio of women in Google. What we need to answer this question is the ratio of women among immigrants vs the overall ratio, something i could not get data on.

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