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This is nice. I didn’t know about these women, other than Grace Hopper.
Why are women so underrepresented in tech?
This is nice. I didn’t know about these women, other than Grace Hopper.
Why are women so underrepresented in tech?
Because it started paying well. And society decides that anything paying well is a man’s job
Oof. It’s unsurprising, but I still hate it. I also had my ideas mocked because of an ad hominem argument.
It’s weird how despite how true this statement is, so many guys will angrily refute it.
Data says it’s actually the other way around: when a larger number of women get into a job sector it stops paying well (for all, even men). Similar result I guess, but this can also be explained by some other factors than just misogyny.
Source? Nursing is the main example I can think of. As jobs in general got shitty, nursing appeared to be a seemingly less shitty career with decent pay/benefits, which is why tons of men are trying to get into it now.
Uhm, that depends on the country. Most places Nursing is still a really stressful and badly paid job (for all gender).
I remember reading a lengthy well scientifically sourced article about it (sorry can’t remember where right now), and the clearest example was journalism, which went from a well paid job mostly done by males, to a badly paid (or not paid at all) job after more and more women entered the sector.
No doubt it’s a very stressful job, but my point is that a nurse generally has better job security than most jobs. In today’s age, that’s a massively important factor when so many employers treat employees like they’re disposable. It’s also not exactly a job that can be outsourced nor automated, two factors that I think men have overlooked in the past when the odds of getting a decent paying job in other “more manly” (big eye roll) sectors were more common.