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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by DanielleMolloy on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:14PM (#12687014)
> with configurations like my last job where both my team lead and the manager were women.

I guess you have to get used to such "configurations", given that in a fully equal world having both a female team lead and manager is entirely possible. Or how does this confirm your claim that women are unfairly promoted more frequently?

The reason for quicker promotions is probably a skewed distribution of personalities, as also mentioned further below. Men of all personalities are more likely to start science and engineering degrees because they are nurtured into it by society anyway. Women have to be the kind of person that does not care about such biases, and develops and follows interests.

Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by wott on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:05PM (#12688520)
I my former company, it was simple: people who sucked at technical stuff were promoted to managerial positions, hoping that they would show some qualities there, and making sure they would at least not any more harm the projects they were part of.

Therefore we had between 0% and 5% women in technical teams, and 75% in management.

Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by DanielleMolloy on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:41PM (#12687316)
I got downvoted for this comment multiple times. Could somebody explain why? Just curious.
Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by amyjess on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:48PM (#12687384)
Because there's a very active hive of MRAs here.
Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by warfangle on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:49PM (#12687400)
Because you're making sense in the face of the Red Pill Brigade.