This seems to be one of those narrow stats that misses the meta around it.
A lot of my female peers, while they like CS would consider family to be more important. (also common among men, but less so) Leaving a job to focus on children is very much a privilege in the 21st century.
Generally speaking, rich people marry rich people and people in tech are generally speaking - rich. This makes quitting the job for 1 spouse easier than in other professions.
Inclusivity is far smaller of an issue than parental leave, better working hours and the ability to show apathy towards your job. Tech gives you none. It is one of the few professions where you're expected to have it as your hobby. you're expected to keep learning in and out of the job. You are expected to attach your self worth to your work. None of these are exclusive to women. It's just that men have been conditioned to function in this ruthless framework without alternative, so they trudge on. Women bail when they can.
Let's talk about how hard it is to re-enter tech. Doing leet code from scratch when you haven't coded in 2 years is 6 months of full time work of prep. Companies like Google and FB make people of all seniority and technical roles to go through this grind. Let alone the fact that staying up to date is its own problem that gets compounded once you have kids.
This is not a he or a she problem. this is a problem(salient feature?) of tech. I am sure there are small diversity and I clusivity things that can improve too. But, they ate not the bulk of the problem..
The hard pill to swallow is if tech wants more women, it will need to decrease its unreasonable demands down to other similar careers for both men and women.
A lot of my female peers, while they like CS would consider family to be more important. (also common among men, but less so) Leaving a job to focus on children is very much a privilege in the 21st century.
Generally speaking, rich people marry rich people and people in tech are generally speaking - rich. This makes quitting the job for 1 spouse easier than in other professions.
Inclusivity is far smaller of an issue than parental leave, better working hours and the ability to show apathy towards your job. Tech gives you none. It is one of the few professions where you're expected to have it as your hobby. you're expected to keep learning in and out of the job. You are expected to attach your self worth to your work. None of these are exclusive to women. It's just that men have been conditioned to function in this ruthless framework without alternative, so they trudge on. Women bail when they can.
Let's talk about how hard it is to re-enter tech. Doing leet code from scratch when you haven't coded in 2 years is 6 months of full time work of prep. Companies like Google and FB make people of all seniority and technical roles to go through this grind. Let alone the fact that staying up to date is its own problem that gets compounded once you have kids.
This is not a he or a she problem. this is a problem(salient feature?) of tech. I am sure there are small diversity and I clusivity things that can improve too. But, they ate not the bulk of the problem..
The hard pill to swallow is if tech wants more women, it will need to decrease its unreasonable demands down to other similar careers for both men and women.