Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up

Re:Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up by oh_sigh on Monday February 25, 2013 @01:48PM (#5280810)

Can you link me to these statistics that you know about? And can you link me to statistics from other fields? And can you link me to statistics which talk about why the women left the field?

What if women leave the field because they can't countenance working long hours with little social interaction like many men can? That could account for the high attrition rate while not being because of any sexism in the sector.

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Re:Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up by steveklabnik on Monday February 25, 2013 @02:01PM (#5280909)

Attrition specifically:

  > The NCWIT reports 56 percent of women in technology companies leave their
  > organizations mid-way through their careers, representing a significant and
  > costly loss of talent.  Reducing the attrition rate by just one quarter
  > would add more than 200,000 staff to the IT workforce.

http://blog.comptia.org/2012/03/01/attract-women-to-high-tec...

Tons of links: http://www.rarlindseysmash.com/posts/2012-06-11-diversity-an...

One of my friends has a series of blog posts. Even if you don't care for the text, she makes extensive citations:

http://www.rarlindseysmash.com/posts/2011-08-16-the-elephant...

http://www.rarlindseysmash.com/posts/2011-09-08-delicious-da...

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Re:Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up by oh_sigh on Monday February 25, 2013 @02:10PM (#5280974)

I thank you for the sources. What I was specifically doubting was the linkage between attrition and sexism(which doesn't seem to be mentioned in the text you quoted). I will take a look over the links you provided this evening, but if you have anything more specific to add on the linkage between attrition and sexism, I'd love to hear it.

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Re:Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up by wilkie on Monday February 25, 2013 @03:00PM (#5281361)

https://gist.github.com/wilkie/5032530

You naturally cannot use a microscope and come to a fixed, proven conclusion. However, I would say that all of the causes of attrition are very likely based upon a prevailing systemic gender oppression (sexism.)

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Re:Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up by oh_sigh on Monday February 25, 2013 @07:11PM (#5282856)

And I would say that all of the causes of attrition are very unlikely based upon a prevailing systemic gender oppression.

See, I provided as much proof for my argument as you did for yours. Where are we now?

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Re:Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up by wilkie on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @08:04PM (#5296244)

I guess you cancel out my intuition with your random opposing statement and we are left with me with a ton of links to studies and you with absolutely nothing.

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Re:Sexism In Tech: We’re Not Making It Up by steveklabnik on Monday February 25, 2013 @02:19PM (#5281048)

It's more in the links. You're welcome.

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