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Re:Barriers to Equality in Academia: Women in Computer Scien... by deepakkarki on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:25PM (#15151151)
A tangential point - do men like the environment any more than women? Or do they work there because of social expectation and the need to keep a high paying job (men being bread winners and all).

During the two years at my previous job I didn't see many men who did like the job, but yet they stuck around for the pay. Women who didn't like the job just left for to pursue something with lower pay / something they liked.

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Re:Barriers to Equality in Academia: Women in Computer Scien... by gaius on Friday September 01, 2017 @03:45PM (#15151819)
the need to keep a high paying job (men being bread winners and all

Right, the study is useless if it doesn't say what they did instead - did they cross train and become successful lawyers, for example?

If you click through a couple of links to the Fortune article, it seems to say that most of them simply stopped working altogether. That's an option most people don't have. Presumably they had partners to support them, as you say.

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Re:Barriers to Equality in Academia: Women in Computer Scien... by watwut on Saturday September 02, 2017 @04:28AM (#15154938)
So maybe we should stop talking about men in tech as if they were all so obessed and passionate about work? Because I can confirm I met quite a few dudes who disliked the work itself. And it universally shown at their output, but many of them still climbed the ladder due to being good culture fit (meaning they were fun to chat around ping pong table and could talk well) and I always thought we would all do better without them.
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