On: Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech

[mordocai]

> The reason there are fewer of them is because fewer of them are interested.

Which is at least somewhat due to societal pressures though.

[rarec → mordocai]

Could it not also be said that societal pressures push men towards tech and other high stress/paying work?

[nucleardog → rarec]

If you look at any list of "most dangerous jobs", it's invariably a list of male-dominated professions.

Are men going into these roles because they all have a death wish, or is it maybe some sort of cultural push to be "manly" and a "provider"?

[jazzyk → mordocai]

At my daughter's high-school, there was a lot of societal pressure for girls to be interested in tech/science. Most of them remained uninterested in math/computers, though quite a few went into life-sciences.