Has anyone ever looked at it from the network effect angle? I’m a software dev because I didn’t like being a CPA and my friend was a tech guy who got me into it.
My wife went into the medical field because her sister turned her onto this speciality that was easy to get into and paid quite well.
I tried to teach my smart wife to program and failed miserably because that’s not how our relationship works.
Most people in even your industry are not die hard passionate live and breathe the code lifestyle types. They show up, work, and go back to their lives.
We all know that ‘in general’ in the USA at least but I’m sure in other countries as well the genders tend to self segregate their peer networks. My close friends are men. Her close friends are women.
Yeah this is absolutely a large chunk of it. Especially when you consider how many jobs are filled through referrals [0]. At my last company, I only worked with male engineers, and so when I got a new job, I could only think of male engineers to refer to open positions.
I think this is also why inertia is so hard to offset here, we have a strong self-reinforcing cycle that's going to take a lot of external force to break out of.
My wife went into the medical field because her sister turned her onto this speciality that was easy to get into and paid quite well.
I tried to teach my smart wife to program and failed miserably because that’s not how our relationship works.
Most people in even your industry are not die hard passionate live and breathe the code lifestyle types. They show up, work, and go back to their lives.
We all know that ‘in general’ in the USA at least but I’m sure in other countries as well the genders tend to self segregate their peer networks. My close friends are men. Her close friends are women.