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Re:Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech by dmoo on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:45AM (#12598032)
She seems pretty clear about it

"I care about computer science. When I was in school in the 1980s, women got about 37 percent of computer science degrees and law degrees then. Law went up to 47 percent now. In medicine, we were at 28 percent in 1984. That’s gone up to 48 percent. Computer science went from 37 percent to 18 percent. I started to learn about it and say, my gosh. To me, the tech industry is one of the best places to work right now."

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Re:Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech by Retric on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:52AM (#12598083)
Some tech jobs are very flexible, but many of them are completely toxic and expect crazy hours. If anything I find women tend to make more rational career choices, which makes programming far less appealing than you might think.

PS: I have also been outnumbered by female developers on a team before. But, never at 'toxic' work environments.

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