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Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by sridca on Monday February 29, 2016 @04:34PM (#11198743)
> Plus the gender ratio is much better for men almost anywhere else.

Could you elaborate?

Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by mwfunk on Monday February 29, 2016 @07:22PM (#11199890)
Silicon Valley has one of the highest male/female ratios in the world, if not the highest.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/the-best-and...

At least by that metric, that means it's the toughest place for single heterosexual men to find women to date. I'm curious if women find the imbalance awesome or awkward when it comes to dating (probably a little bit of both?).

Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by ap22213 on Monday February 29, 2016 @09:15PM (#11200372)
Come to DC which has one of the best ratios (for guys, at least), and the women are pretty much all highly-educated, if you're into lawyers, policy wonks, biologists, or NGOers.

Plus, salaries at pure software companies and startups are pretty good. I have had four people in the last week quote me 200k salaries.

Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by hiram112 on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @04:33AM (#11201691)
What type of positions in DC @ $200k?
Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by ap22213 on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @08:21AM (#11202362)
Full-stack Angular, Node, Spark, Hadoop, Java, Scala, AWS, etc.
Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by therealdrag0 on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @09:44PM (#11214704)
Dang. I hate moving. But that sounds appealing.
Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by surge on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:07PM (#11199008)
My guess, it's not as hard to find women in the office in tech companies in key roles outside of SF at least not as bad as it's made out to be in CA and the tech centric news sources that tend to focus solely on Silicon Valley as representative of tech as a whole. Some of us work in regular old Fortune 500 companies that aren't based in SF, and generally, but not always, they seem to do a better job on the gender mix and attracting female talent granted its not 50/50. Maybe companies in other areas provide better work life balance and stability than start up culture tech companies, I don't know. This is also purely anecdotal and based on my experience.

Might just mean in general, if the person's single maybe the odds are better of meeting someone, no idea.

Re:Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Va... by freyr on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @03:48AM (#11201503)
I believe SF has a much better straight male to female ratio than the rest of SV. A lot of single women want to live in the city.