> So few people are willing to admit that the reason women generally don’t get into tech is because they’re not interested in it. I don’t know many females in my life who’d rather spend hours focusing on impersonal abstractions rather than people.
You're partly right, I think, but you have to take into account group psychology. People like being in groups. A lot of women probably don't go into tech (or condition themselves not to be interested in tech) because there are few women in tech at present. For example, assuming you are a male, pick any occupation (even a well-paid one) where 95% of employees are women, then spend a few weeks there. Very soon you will be tired of listening to other women talk about nails, babies, and other female business. Now the same applies, in reverse, to women who are afraid of joining a male-dominated field. It's a self-perpetuating pattern.
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> So few people are willing to admit that the reason women generally don’t get into tech is because they’re not interested in it. I don’t know many females in my life who’d rather spend hours focusing on impersonal abstractions rather than people.
You're partly right, I think, but you have to take into account group psychology. People like being in groups. A lot of women probably don't go into tech (or condition themselves not to be interested in tech) because there are few women in tech at present. For example, assuming you are a male, pick any occupation (even a well-paid one) where 95% of employees are women, then spend a few weeks there. Very soon you will be tired of listening to other women talk about nails, babies, and other female business. Now the same applies, in reverse, to women who are afraid of joining a male-dominated field. It's a self-perpetuating pattern.