The Culture Keeping Women Out of Tech Jobs
fivethirtyeight.com
fivethirtyeight.com
It talks about how > 50% of bachelor degrees in STEM are earned by women(according to the NSF). Then it talks about how ~39% of STEM jobs are held by women(according to a different org with probably different standards - the ACS).
Why don't they care about the great injustice being perpetrated against men by women earning more than their fair share of degrees in a field? Why don't they account for the differences in bookkeeping between the NSF and the ACS?
Why doesn't it compare these numbers and the degree-to-work dropoff to other non-STEM fields?
Then it talks about "27 percent said they find their careers stalling due to workplace sexism". Why don't they talk about how that number relates to other fields? Or how it relates to mens numbers for the same question in the same field? Or the same question in different fields.
Software is an industry of truth. I have seen my share of deadweight (male only) and nothing kills a fledgling company faster. Hire competent people who you get along with. Fire people who don't produce. Don't hire someone just because of their gender. It's unfair to all and is actually sexist...
from the NSF study: Female CS grads in 2012: 8,730 Male CS grads in 2012: 39,230
from the ACS study: Women's respresentation ... remains significantly underrepresented in engineering and computer occupations ... which make up more than 80 percent of all STEM employment.