>>"Yeah, women get driven out of tech in droves."

True, over 40% of women leave SET (science, engineering, technology, math) mid-career (https://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/womenint... page 9).

Interestingly, in engineering 39% leave mid-career, and in technology occupations 56%.

>True, over 40% of women leave SET (science, engineering, technology, math) mid-career //

How does that compare to other fields?

Not sure about the data for other fields. But if you compare to men, in SET, only ~17% of men leave mid-career.

The big elephant in the room is pregnancy and children. I've thought about having children, and leaving my career very intensely, but pushed it back after seeing the related costs.

This differs a lot: at the last company I worked with some men were awful.

That doesn't seem to be the standard though.

I do see one issue though: women are far more likely to be sick (at least around here statistics are quite clear IIRC).

Men are more likely to place pride over medical care. They'll take fewer days they really need as a result.

Seriously. Some days I think I put way too much irrational pressure on myself just to be "good enough" at my job.

When toxic masculinity is literally toxic.

Masculinity has been sexually selected for (by females) for millennia. Much of this selection wasn't even done by humans! Placing blame seems silly.

"women are far more likely to be sick"

That's only the case for younger workers. For older workers, men are more likely to be sick, according to insurance statistics.

Interesting. Didn't know.

I'll accept it for now but I guess I'll have to look that up before I feel confident to tell that as fact.

Edit: why was parent downvoted?