> (I would very much believe, however, that in bartending, it's stacked against men.)

OTOH, bartending is a customer-facing business, and partially entails "entertainment" (e.g. the bar-tender talking with the customers), so in many cases there's an actual business reason to prefer female bartenders (when most customers are men who prefer talking to a woman bartender).

No such excuse exists in software development...

Since you're familiar with the studies, please cite them. As it stands your comment is just "RTFM!!" without even saying which manual.

The studies cited on the original article which this comment thread it attached to. Read the graphs there. Equally qualified women were rated as less competent.

http://www.technologywoman.com/2012/09/27/i-only-got-that-jo...