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Re:Things I Never, Ever Want to Hear Again by a3voices on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @12:54PM (#6322042)
I think more men are successful at tech because more enter the field. At my university, which was actually 56% female (IIRC), my electrical engineering classes almost entirely consisted of males.
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Re:Things I Never, Ever Want to Hear Again by prutschman on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @01:51PM (#6322467)
I think it's worth looking at why more men enter the field.

I think it's also worth looking at why the participation of women in computer science in particular, as opposed to other technical fields, decreased on a relative basis after initial increases.[1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html?_r=0

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Re:Things I Never, Ever Want to Hear Again by a3voices on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @02:07PM (#6322594)
I'd wager that it's a variety of factors that are mostly cultural.
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Re:Things I Never, Ever Want to Hear Again by cliveb on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @03:09AM (#6326075)
It is. Here’s the science of why by Heidi Grant Halvorson PhD citing research by Carol Dweck PhD. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-success/2011...
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