Hmmm.
My formative adult years, at the beginning of my career, were spent in Japan, where every female was expected to get married and get out by the age of 28-or-so.
I have no opinion or comment on whether that is good or bad for the Japanese men and women in their own society.
But after that, I got to the US, and most of the women that I met in "my ranks" of career maturity were definitely very capable - and in it for the long haul. Which is to say: I've never seen the winnowing process up-close-and-personal.
I'm guessing that something happens between the ages of 20 and 35? Or maybe less women join in the US in the first place? I don't know. But I think that if we are going to explore what's going on - we're going to have to go upstream of what most of these types of pieces are looking at...
> Then once it was realized that programming was more than a clerical task, women were more and more forced out because it was expected that women were going to leave once they got married.
That's very interesting if it is true. I'll have to dig into this a bit.
EDIT: I am a male, if that wasn't obvious.
My formative adult years, at the beginning of my career, were spent in Japan, where every female was expected to get married and get out by the age of 28-or-so.
I have no opinion or comment on whether that is good or bad for the Japanese men and women in their own society.
But after that, I got to the US, and most of the women that I met in "my ranks" of career maturity were definitely very capable - and in it for the long haul. Which is to say: I've never seen the winnowing process up-close-and-personal.
I'm guessing that something happens between the ages of 20 and 35? Or maybe less women join in the US in the first place? I don't know. But I think that if we are going to explore what's going on - we're going to have to go upstream of what most of these types of pieces are looking at...
> Then once it was realized that programming was more than a clerical task, women were more and more forced out because it was expected that women were going to leave once they got married.
That's very interesting if it is true. I'll have to dig into this a bit.
EDIT: I am a male, if that wasn't obvious.