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So women are much more likely than men to give up job hunting after rejection. This may not apply to other areas in life, but it does seem to apply to job hunting. See also this Harvard Business Review article.[1] Not clear why this is.

I saw a study a few years back where someone was looking at number of applications required to get a job vs number of tries made by applicants. They reported a similar result.

Could this be helped simply by coaching? Just knowing that on average it takes N tries is useful.

[1] https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless...

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> So women are much more likely than men to give up job hunting after rejection. > This may not apply to other areas in life, but it does seem to apply to job hunting.

I think that those who are more resilient of rejection end up producing children more often.

I also believe men are more conditioned to accept rejection from potential sexual partners, so the job knockbacks are not taken personally.

Women who got to the stage of job applications are more likely to give up after than rejection than men who do.

Who's to say that the two are comparable? The men who would give up may have given up earlier in the process

is this really a bad strategy though? Assuming we have enough jobs to apply to (in tech), why not walk away once you feel your counterpart is not excited, and switch to the next one?

Yes, we could flip this around and say that men are more likely to bash their head against a wall. Women say “hmm, clearly I’m not getting anywhere with this, I’ll go try something else.” Which is better? Both strategies probably work out fine, but you’ll end up with fewer women in jobs which involve a lot of head-wall-bashing and a lot of evaluations without much support/guidance/encouragement (and surely programming is one of those jobs).

Either give up or switch to a different platform I think?

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