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Female Employees Who Are the Only Woman at Work More Likely to Consider Quitting

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31 pointsRaj7k10 comments

Well yeah, if I was the only man in a company with only women, I might want to leave as well. It's not that I'm uncomfortable working with women, I just understand men a bit better and thus prefer to work with other men.

Interesting given this from the article:

> And here’s the twist: Of the 7% of men who say they are often the only man in the room at work, the majority say they feel included and “fortunate to be there.”

The article have a different view.

Reminds me of doing further mathematics a-levels at school (UK, so last couple of years before uni). We had a single girl in a class of about ten, who eventually decided she'd prefer to drop the class. It was a shame as she was very bright and - at least to my memory - it was one of the few courses that really stretched us. But I can't think of any way to have created a different outcome... I think she just didn't enjoy the atmosphere created by such a group of nerdy teenage guys.

Being in the class was detrimental to her social status.

I am a male, I work in a hospital. The situation is pretty close to me as well. It's just the culture of having men around vs having mostly 90% up, woman around.

> Of the 7% of men who say they are often the only man in the room at work, the majority say they feel included and “fortunate to be there.”

The above is just stated as obvious, while with reversed genders the problem deserves an article, public discussion, and various forms of "positive" discrimination. Here lies the core of the problem.

Man without a woman - a loser.

Man among the women - fortunate.

The core of the problem is that there are workplace gender imbalances. It's not clear what you meant by "stated as obvious"--it's stated as the result of a survey, like all the other results--but one reason it's not the focus of the article is that women were almost 200% more likely than men to be in that position in the first place.

"With genders reversed," the result is also reversed. Articles are being written about it (like the one you just read). Public discussion is occurring about it (like the one we're having). You seem to be more upset by the survey's findings not aligning with your assumptions than by any perceived flaw with its methods.

> women were almost 200% more likely than men to be in that position

The article doesn't seem to talk about any particular industry. There exist heavily feminized industries, which ones depends on the country, e.g. many outsourcing and nearshoring centers in post-Communist countries are, government's and local authorities' office jobs, certain healthcare related jobs.

> You seem to be more upset by the survey's findings not aligning with your assumptions than by any perceived flaw with its methods.

This is just offensive. I hope I will never be forced to discuss with you.

I don't follow your reasoning. Women feel very uncomfortable when they are the only female employee, but the "core" of the problem is social expectations on men?

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