Re:Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Techn...
by bilch on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:23AM
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By this line of reasoning, shouldn't there be a lot of unattractive women flocking to tech?
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Techn...
by anothercomment on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:37AM
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Historically, the few women in tech were often not the most attractive ones. It seems to have gotten better. Likewise, the male nerds were often not the most attractive ones.
Perhaps there are not that many unattractive young women, so their number is not sufficient to increase female participation in tech by a significant amount.
At the college level, I think that the social gap gets even worse. Women can get into frat parties where they don't know anyone, though they don't even have to because they are much more likely to be invited in the first place. Bouncers at bars/clubs will let them skip the line and overlook them during ID check.
Women are better paid in the services industry which gives them bank roll to sustain their partying lifestyle, although this isn't even needed because they can get people to pay for their cover/food/drinks.
All these privileges drive them away from looking up buffer overflow errors on Stackoverflow late at night.