Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, study finds

Re:Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, ... by s_dev on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:41AM (#24650697)

In Eastern Europe during the Cold War the trend was also the opposite -- with women in the majority. Women occupied the majority of those "dev" roles as it was laregely seen as womens work.

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Re:Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, ... by romanoderoma on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:55AM (#24650813)

I think east Europe is also leading the numbers for rate of women in tech, especially as coders and they are ranked among the best in the World.

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Re:Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, ... by Dirlewanger on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:51AM (#24650783)

This was the case in the US too, until about the 80s; not a majority of women working in programming but a much more sizeable portion of the workforce was.

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Re:Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, ... by microcolonel on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:52AM (#24650787)

This was a time (there was a similar period in the U.S, but it was earlier) when the direct operation of computers was essentially secretarial work, a level more sophisticated than operating a typewriter; it was not some magical era where women were the majority of people designing and implementing computer programs at the highest levels.

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Re:Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, ... by rijoja on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:44AM (#24650727)

mm and a lot of the first computers where in fact women

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